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

To: Lane3 who wrote (66991)	11/18/2002 7:59:59 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

"Your metaphor about the linebacker and the quarterback gave me an opportunity to make a point in your own terms, two points really. That the linebacker removes his weight when he quarterback cries "uncle" and that he feels bad about the broken leg even if it occurred on a legal hit and the quarterback was too scrawny to have been in the game in the first place." Good point. I would add that a discussion group is not a football game where people are paid big bucks to risk physical injury, and where the participants are qualified to the activity. SI as not intended as a forum for psychotic harassment. When it occurs it is not staus quo; it is not a "hail mary" for the alma mater. It is simply a despicable act...

To: Lane3 who wrote (66991)	11/18/2002 11:16:21 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

That's a fair point, but let's follow your analogy out. Suppose that after the hit Theisman hadn't accepted it a part of the cost of playing the game, but had egged on his teammates to attack LT, and to continue the attack for months, that Theisman had tried to get his teammates to ostracize LT, that they had vilified LT and called him all sorts of names and thrown all manner of false accusations at him, that Theisman's teammates had set up a whole new division which excluded LT in order to protect Theisman from having to face LT ever again, and on and on. Do you think LT would still have felt kindly toward Theisman? It was this response that brought X, for example, into the fray. Not that she approved of the hit, but that she recognized that the response was out of all proportion to the hit and was a greater evil than the hit itself.