Sunny Fox

Yes, in general I'm quick with a joke, or to light up your smoke. Driven?

"Just one more pressing of the snooze button, then I'll definitely get up."

And that's the way the news goes wub-a-luba-pony-feathers.

Banned for rubbing frogs on your face.

Dark

Empty Coke bottle with the label removed.

Jasper

Seacumberbob Trianglepants. Please inform me as to the appropriate proper noun to attach to the following individual:

Perk.

Figure skating. Who directed the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Apple Bloom (the ribbon proves it!) Who's this?

Blue. What is the website dedicated to examining common conventions in fiction (or as some might call them, tropes)?

Tingle. Who is the current president of the Rainbow Dash fanclub?

Trixie doing anything vaguely useful.

Haruhara Haruko. "ATOMSK!"

The Forum God (may his ever-internetting-benevolence-save-us-from-trolls) Are internet trolls just sad, or super-duper sad?

Yes, it's good to fear an avalanche, or the tiger that wants to eat you. Fear in these cases can mean the difference between life and death. In neither case it is possible to sit down and discuss issues with the thing you fear. When it comes to people, it's not quite as clear cut. The question is not "can fear be valuable?" (obviously, yes, it can), it's "do you prefer to be feared or loved"? That sounds to me like an oversimplification, but further elaboration would be ... um, read.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but why do you say that?

And he was wrong?

Hmmm. Wasn't it fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering?

If someone fears you, you will have power over them. Anything that evolves from that necessarily includes some form of coersion, whether consciously identified or not. Love is a choice. You cannot be forced into love (Stockholm Syndrome aside). Whatever I'm doing, I'd rather have consent as opposed to force. But what about punishing criminals... isn't that fear (of punishment), being a higher consideration than love? Sure. But I believe that institutions should be feared while people should not. (A person should fear committing crimes in light of the punishment they would merit should they be caught. But such punishment needs to come from some sort of entity that represents society as a whole, not an individual with all the individual failings that implies. - This is part of why vigilantism is punished.) Also, your thread title is totes confusing. What are we to agree to disagree with if your statement takes no stance? "Agree or Disagree: It is better to be feared than loved" or "Agree or Disagree: It is better to be loved than feared".... either is a better thread topic, because it makes a stand for us to agree or to disagree with. (Whichever you personally prefer, you could just argue that you were playing Devil's Advocate.) It leads the dark side.