I'm glad you've found happiness in what you're doing. And I will say good for you on attempting to create a community where humans and anthro fans be respectful of one another. I've heard from Weasyl that they're trying to do the same, and most certainly the bridge between humanity and furry I think is on the cusp of growing. However, to say we're there, that there is no longer a problem with integration would be a fabrication to me.
When furries and human avatars are truely comfortable with one another, we would need no law to enforce that furries treat human avatars with respect, or vise versa. We would need no laws that say blacks and whites should have access to the same opportunities and services. We would need no laws to prevent what is in our animal instincts. To pull into a pack. To create our own little communities, and even within our own community. To make it about A vs B. You're seeing that with the whole FA controversy right now.
Unfortunately there are those who find enjoyment in the struggles, in causing the chaos that causes seperation. For instance I don't think the GYC has a 'no humans' policy, it's just that if a griefing is going to happen, it is on a fresh account and so they have no anthro avatar. So the defensive behavior becomes learned. Others are naive to it and just give in to the instincts. My hope is that one day we won't need to have a rule tell us to respect those in human avatars, we just will.
I know you've probably worked hard your whole life to make the world around you a better place, and maybe in some ways you succeeded. But "The land of Confusion" is confused-- no generation will ever fix everything wrong with the world, it is merely the job of each generation to make the world a bit better then when they started out, and have faith that our children (or the children of others) and the ones following will handle the rest, ad infinitum.
I'm glad you've found happiness in what you're doing. And I will say good for you on attempting to create a community where humans and anthro fans be respectful of one another. I've heard from Weasyl that they're trying to do the same, and most certainly the bridge between humanity and furry I think is on the cusp of growing. However, to say we're there, that there is no longer a problem with integration would be a fabrication to me.
When furries and human avatars are truely comfortable with one another, we would need no law to enforce that furries treat human avatars with respect, or vise versa. We would need no laws that say blacks and whites should have access to the same opportunities and services. We would need no laws to prevent what is in our animal instincts. To pull into a pack. To create our own little communities, and even within our own community. To make it about A vs B. You're seeing that with the whole FA controversy right now.
Unfortunately there are those who find enjoyment in the struggles, in causing the chaos that causes seperation. For instance I don't think the GYC has a 'no humans' policy, it's just that if a griefing is going to happen, it is on a fresh account and so they have no anthro avatar. So the defensive behavior becomes learned. Others are naive to it and just give in to the instincts. My hope is that one day we won't need to have a rule tell us to respect those in human avatars, we just will.
I know you've probably worked hard your whole life to make the world around you a better place, and maybe in some ways you succeeded. But "The land of Confusion" is confused-- no generation will ever fix everything wrong with the world, it is merely the job of each generation to make the world a bit better then when they started out, and have faith that our children (or the children of others) and the ones following will handle the rest, ad infinitum.