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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (51056)6/14/2002 8:05:38 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
All I have been trying to do is
to demonstrate that someone could be skeptical about charges of stalking and
perversion without being on Chris's "side."

It is indeed pleasant to find another person here who isn't into jumping blindly onto bandwagons. Not that I ever thought you were that kind of person. You've proved the contrary many times over. But it's nice to have you pointing out that you can disapprove of a person's conduct without having to paint them as blacker (and more to the right) than Attila the Hun.

But if the experiences of Neo and JC are any indication, you can expect further repercussions. The idea of balance, the idea of tolerance, the idea that there are shades of disapproval, are ideas which seem to be alien to a number of posters here. You're either with'em or agin'em. Black or white. They haven't figured out that the world isn't quite that simple.

As you say, if they get all het and waste their ultimate outrage for this behavior, they have no room left when truly bad behavior happens.

All you have to do is look around at the world -- at the car bombngs in Israel, at Colorado burning up with several dozen homes burned to the ground and hundreds of people evacuated, at 9-11, at the apparent kidnapping in Utah--to realize that the worst that could happen here is mighty small potatoes in the scope of life. Not that it's insignificant. But certainly not worth the emotion and outrage that have been expended on it.
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