# How do we feel about each other?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-feel-about-each-other/81484>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 13, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-feel-about-each-other/81484 "2001-09-13T23:46:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-feel-about-each-other/81484/1 "2001-09-13T23:46:10Z")

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There have been displays over the last couple of days of raw, unfiltered emotions by the members of the Straight Dope community. We have seen how people react in a crisis. How do we feel about that?

Are there Dopers whose posts you’ve read and said, “I had no idea! I want to make love to this person over and over again.”? Or others who make you think, “Oh, my gawd. I liked him/her. But now I think he/she should be horsewhipped.”? Or, “I wish that Doper was my brother/sister.”? Or, “Why did that person ever register?”?

How do we feel?

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-feel-about-each-other/81484/2 "2001-09-14T00:00:14Z")

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I for one have been moved by the outpouring of support I’ve seen in the doper community. I’m definitely proud to be a member right now.

There are people whose views I strongly disagree with, but I’m willing to cut them some slack. Emotions are running high, and it’s easy to talk before you think.

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**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-feel-about-each-other/81484/3 "2001-09-14T00:27:55Z")

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> Are there Dopers whose posts you’ve read and said, “I had no idea! I want to make love to this person over and over again.”? Or others who make you think, “Oh, my gawd. I liked him/her. But now I think he/she should be horsewhipped.”? Or, “I wish that Doper was my brother/sister.”? Or, “Why did that person ever register?”?

All of the above.

But above all of those at-the-moment emotional reactions, proud to be here.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-feel-about-each-other/81484/4 "2001-09-14T00:39:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \*  
> \*\*others who make you think, “Oh, my gawd. I liked him/her. But now I think he/she should be horsewhipped.”? \*\*

Love you too, Johnny. 😉

Really, though, we are seeing that we are not just the one-dimensional (whether that was a good dimension or not) people we sometimes seem. We all have depths that we rarely show, again both good and bad.