I'd like to recall back when I first logged onto the campfire forum. I remember thinking to myself how excited I was to be able to ask for advice or to relate some of my experiences with other fellow woodmen who have a similar love of the outdoors.
Well in short it all went rather well until I started to discover something that was a bit of a surprise.
The art of respectful internet debate! Sound simple! Yet not so easy for a beginner.
Yes in short order I continually found myself in rather heated debates with a number of fellas. Though I found myself slipping and not entirely adept to respectful internet debate there was however something that I did notice.
I have always had a great amount of respect for individual I would encounter in life that were able to teach me great things about moral value, respect, or right from wrong.
Often times what was learned was acquired more from example than words and I have always been one to watch for what I see to be good.
Recently here on the fire I found myself in a rather heated debate with a fella by the name of 2muchgun. Before long I found myself slinging insults and behaving in a manner or fashion that to be frank I became rather ashamed of.
Yes, this is just the internet and nobody knows who I am but the point is, I know who I am, what kind of folks I admire, and as a younger man who I want to be.
There are a very large number of folks on the campfire that I really admire and I'd like to say thank you for the example you set in respectfully debating. I admire that example and it doesn't go unnoticed.
I'd like to think that as a outdoorsman there is much more to the package than just knowing guns.
For myself its a way of life and includes the highest standard of moral conduct. It is the reason many of us teach our children this way of life.
I'm ashamed of my behavior the last few days and so have decided to work harder carry on the tradition of maral value and further to be an example that younger men and women can admire, by following the examples of respectful men I have come to admire both in everyday life and here on the fire.
My apologies to 2muchgun.
And please sir, a little less coffee.
Shod
Last edited by Shodd; 10/25/14.
