Not at all.
This is about the message, and not the messenger and before you call something shameful you'd better learn some logic, for starters.
The issue as he defined it was that he loves the knife content here but it ruins his enjoyment to see some of the stuff posted in the PA, and he referred to content he thought was terrible. The issue accordingly that he delimited was whether the PA content should be permitted to ruin his enjoyment.
But that was a false statement of the issue by him since his enjoyment couldn't possibly be ruined by exposure to PA content unless he deliberately went there to see it. There's no other way he could see the content to be offended by it, is there?
That's not blaming the messenger, it's refuting or at least defining the message. The message isn't his seeing the content, it's other people saying and seeing the content. It's the existence of the content, unless we put him in a chair and force him like Clockwork Orange or Robot Chicken
The real message, given that he doesn't have to see PA cntent so the actual content can't disturb him unless he looks, is that he doesn't want the content to be there at all. He doesn't want anyone else to look at it either. The very fact other people see it and other people look at it is what offends him, since he doesn't have to see it. That necessarily follows from the simple fact nobody is forcing him to look and that is a very deliberate choice on his part. If he doesnt want to be offended, don't look. But he's offended it exists.
Saying you are offended by stuff you don't see, unless you choose to, is not logically coherent unless what you mean is you are offended by the very existence of that stuff and don't want anyone else to say it or see it. So that logically is his issue.
That's a different issue. I'm sympathetic to people being offended by what they see, but not to people being offended by what others choose to see. See how that works?
And BTW, on many occasions I have moderated comments that could be offensive to members that might choose to look in, including comments about leftists, gay people, muslims, catholics, anybody supporting abortion/the right to choose. Even in PA we have some segregated threads to keep potential offence down to others, like the Hellfire Thread and the Abortion thread. We are very conscious of people looking in. We want members to look in and participate. But it ain't for everyone, and we don't deny it.
With all due respect, while many criticisms of PA are quite valid, quite a few bear little relationship to the actual PA and are themselves highly selective and biased.
I guess one has to question whether it's worth it, especially me.
