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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15755)	6/6/2001 12:29:48 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

In a free society there are consequences to tampering with individual relationships. On Solon's Island you can converge on bad individuals to extol them to virtue by shouting and beatings but that won't work here or in the real world. When you say "there's something there that needs repair" you have made two judgements, one by using the word "needs" and a further with the word "repair". Both are based on criteria selected by you alone which may be completely out to lunch. Why is your observation the only correct, proper, good or moral one? The good old girl wheeze, "you go girl" is a little transparent, don't you think? A gore gal posed the question "Should God be Replaced", the answer seems to be "let's impose our world view instead" because we know best and our judgement is "there's something that needs to be repaired". A person who falls down weeping over a tree has bigger issues than the tree and should be sent to counseling or heavily medicated, because "there's something there that needs repair". Why should one person inflict tree psychosis on a group.

To: Lane3 who wrote (15755)	6/6/2001 10:23:29 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

What, exactly, does dignity entail? Does that mean you can't make fun of people in forums like this? Irascible people? Unpleasant people? People whom one might find...ludicrous? Because while there is a fine line between vicious mocking and regular mocking, I like a good mocking. Personal attacks that aren't witty and aren't related to the subject matter, are boring if they aren't really clever- so for me there is a decidedly slippery slope. Very very clever people mocking other people- even if cruel- is so wonderful to watch I'd have a hard time forbidding it (among adults). I'm thinking of some of the very nasty things Oscar Wilde was wont to say about people. Just lovely. Wouldn't want "dignity" to stand in the way of good stuff like that.