Everyone is beautiful, there are no losers.

[frankykeno]

I'm still pretty young (i guess), but I come from a time where kids could still fail (and were allowed to fail), still get still get their asses kicked in school and through it all still take it all as an opportunity to rise above it and kick ass in our own rights.

BrandonsBalls

I guess I'm not still pretty young LOL because I come from a time and place where the word "brutally" didn't always seem to go with the word "honest". This really is a soapbox thing for me, Brandon, so bear with me and please don't take this personally but I really don't get this sort of mindset.

When did being tactful, kind or non-judgemental turn into sugarcoating? When did it become okay to say anything that pops into a person's brain and justify it all by using "just sayin'"? When did we lose our internal filter that says "maybe in this case I should just keep my tongue behind my teeth and my opinion to myself"?

I guess the way I see it, when it comes to photos here, is that, for me anyways, any well kept snake that a person shows us is a gorgeous animal because it's able to live it's life well under that person's care. No one is asking us to stand judgement on whether the animal is the best example. This is not some sort of online snake show, nor are the majority of us qualified to give that kind of expert opinion anyways (no matter what our ego's would like to tell us). It's a different matter if a person is showing a photo and asking for an opinion on the quality of the morph in order to purchase it but even then, it's an opinion - your opinion, my opinion, not something written in stone by our egos. Personally I think it should be expressed as an opinion and done so without the big stick of "brutal honesty" swung so quickly all the time.

As for the non-snake rest of it, I don't think it would kill society to be just a tad less self-serving and immature. Manners are something that have gone out of vogue it seems in this world of "I call it like it is". I for one am very sorry to see them go by the wayside.