@juniata guy posted:Choose any hobby people engage in and there will be individuals outside the hobby with perceived stereotypes of the typical hobbyist. At the end of the day, what does it really matter?
Curt
That is a good point and a valuable one, and it isn't just hobbies. How many of us have seen or experienced where spouses, for example, complain about the hobby and what people will think? I certainly don't care, given that having trains doesn't change my value as a person, doesn't hurt anyone, doesn't cost anyone outside my pocketbook anything, so why should I care? One of the things I never understood is why would people even care what other people are doing enough to judge it, if it gives someone else pleasure and isn't affecting you, hurting someone, who cares? I always liked what Tom Paine wrote on the subject, he said that intolerance and tolerance are basically just as bad, that both of them are predicated on the right to judge other people, the only difference is what you do with that judgement.
