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

To: coug who wrote (42955)	1/29/2002 11:33:39 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Okay, let's see. The facts as I read them, are certain women do not want you to post to them.. But you keep on doing it. Maybe you're reading the facts a bit askew. What I have done is, sometimes, respond to posts that people have put up on public threads that are on topics of interest to me. If someone posts a post on a topic of interest to me, no, I don't feel constrained not to share my thoughts because that person has asked me not to post to them. Though it doesn't happen all that often. Look at the record. Stratetgically, people have used the "please don't post to me" routine sometimes to try to stifle free and open discussion or the presention of viewpoints contrary to theirs. It's a form of censorship of ideas which I'm not buying into. If people really don't want to read my responses, they have the ignore function. Nobody ever has to read a single word I post. If they do read it, it's by their choice. But I'm not going to cut myself out of a public discussion. There are threads people can post on where I am not allowed to post, so if they are that concerned that I not post replies to their posts, they have places to go. When they post on public threads on topics of public interest, they have to expect the public to exercise its right to respond. And as I said earlier, I don't post multiple posts to a person who doesn't respond to me. So if people don't want to engage in discourse with me, all they have to do is not respond, and that will take care of it. But if they keep the dialogue going, and keep posting to me, or to others on the same topic replying to points I have raised, they can hardly complain about my continuing to post on the topic. I have seldom--very seldom--initiated out of the blue, not as a response to a post of theirs, a post to a woman who didn't want me to post to them. It may have happened, but very seldom, if ever. and in some of posts you claim to be exchanging PMs that I think are total BS.. SI Jeff has called an end to that set of exchanges--on both sides--so I won't get into the details. Let me just say that I tried to respond to an unprovoked attack on me with humor. And I'll leave it at that.