backontrack
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Personally, I definitely do. But what about you?
I do support the Junior Doctors, my colleagues, in England.
First of all a disclaimer - I am a junior doctor.........
We have a balance of about 90% for/10% against. I'd be interested to hear the explanations and views of those who are against.
Do you realise that there will be a number of forum members who will neither make a posting nor vote on this poll which names them for fear of any subsequent posting of unpleasant postings that will follow that could lead to acrimonious repercussions that will then see intervention by the forum moderators.
I'd guess at London Bankers, International Corporate Giants which may buy UK assets, Etonian style schools, The Royal Family, etc.They go after the junior doctors, then the disabled, then you and me. I wonder who they won't go after.
I don't support either the doctors or teachers and don't see why I have to justify my opinion simply to then be abused.
Do you realise that there will be a number of forum members who will neither make a posting nor vote on this poll which names them for fear of any subsequent posting of unpleasant postings that will follow that could lead to acrimonious repercussions that will then see intervention by the forum moderators.
No one needs to vote if they don't want to, just as no on e needs to post comments on the thread. I hope that we can have a mature discussion with respect being shown towards anyone who might happen to have different views. Those views can be challenged, but there is no justification in getting personal.
I don't support either the doctors or teachers and don't see why I have to justify my opinion simply to then be abused.
I don't support either the doctors or teachers and don't see why I have to justify my opinion simply to then be abused.
Once again, you need not vote, but you should feel ashamed of your views, too. Whether you choose to vote or not, the idea that anonymity changes anything is frankly absurd. I agree that I'd hope that we wouldn't have any nasty messages or anything; you have as much right to express your views here as I have. But whether or not you vote comes down to personal discretion, and not the fact that people can 'see' your name. I respect your decision not to vote; the ability to abstain is an important freedom. I just don't quite agree with your reason not to - again, as Voltaire said*, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it".*
Be proud of your views, and don't let anyone else change them. Your values are the one thing nobody can take away from you.
Once again, you need not vote, but you should feel ashamed of your views, too. Whether you choose to vote or not, the idea that anonymity changes anything is frankly absurd.
How far are people willing to support the strike. Are you willing to keep that support if Emergency care was removed ?
Poor you. It must be difficult to deal with the consequences of making your opinion known. i.e. people disagreeing with you.
Some people would be genuinely interested in your position on this, there are two sides to every story and both are equally relevant.
Who has abused you?
Whilst that comment above was made in answer to another forum member, I think it is time that I made my position clear.
Outright politically motivated threads such as this one that have been made from one very strong held point of view are not set up to have a reasoned debate on this particular website from what I have seen in the almost five years that I have been a member of this website. In past times, I have sought to put forward my own personal views on certain matters, but it was not just "people disagreeing with you", it was the vitriolic way that some of the responding postings were both made and phrased. This is just an internet forum, not the House of Commons where it seems that "anything goes".
Therefore, again I will state my objection about the "name and shame" list of those against the thread proposal being published for all to see as being one that the NKVD would have thought an excellent method of finding out who were dissenters from "the party line".
what on earth are you on about :roll:
what on earth are you on about :roll:
If you do not follow the reasoning behind the most clearly phrased statements that I made in my posting, then this is no fault of mine.