GUEST One Sick Bastard - is your name an attempt at 'black humour', irony, or just a demonstration of how much you love and value yourself and your opinions? I suspect the latter! And you can't give out what you don't have - including love and peace and respect. Garbage in - garbage out.
The War betting thread IS a "dangerous and vile pool of fear and negativism". According to Webster's dictionary:
"VILE: 1a: - morally despicable or abhorrent (nothing is so VILE as intellectual dishonesty); b - physically repulsive : FOUL (a VILE slum)
2: of little worth or account : COMMON; also MEAN
3: tending to degrade (VILE employments)
4: disgustingly or utterly bad : OBNOXIOUS, CONTEMPTIBLE (VILE weather) (had a VILE temper)
SYNONYM see BASE
I think I chose the PERFECT word to describe the War betting thread and the motives behind it. I suspect that if those who started/support it WERE honest, they'd tell us they really get aroused by terror and horror and grief - really gets the hormones pumped, so they can feel more 'alive'! (Their hearts must be quite dead, after all, to enjoy such VILE 'entertainment'). So they go about creating as much fear and horror as they can, in their minds and in their lives. And they must LOVE it when other people 'catch' their foul moods - they feed on it like vampires. Misery loves company!
Now that's their choice, and they're free to pursue it. But when I see toxic waste dumped ANYWHERE, I do my best to clean it up.
If you did the same, maybe you'd stop calling yourself "One Sick Bastard".