Posted by Dr. Bob on June 17, 2001, at 18:21:49
In reply to Re: Hoopla about Elizabeth, posted by Lorraine on June 17, 2001, at 12:35:09
> 3. I think that there are some people on the board that are anti-drug. I don't think that is a useful approach to a board that I think is drug-approach oriented.
> 4. As someone who is medically ill, I don't need to hear about how drugs are wrong. To say that drugs are wrong reflects a moral judgment about the validity of mental illness. It is the whole stigma thing that we get in the real world. Why do we find this behavior acceptable here? ... I think we are way too tolerant of an insidious form of prejudice against the mentally ill under the guise of allowing a diversity of viewpoints.
On the one hand, I agree, it's not very supportive in a community like this to be anti-drug -- for whatever reason. OTOH, I do like a diversity of viewpoints. Maybe if it includes anti-drug ones, it helps people who are still kind of "on the fence" to think it through?
> I also think that some of the anti-drug stuff is intentionally beligerant as though people were trying to start a war. I mean you don't ordinarily go into a gay bar and bash gays, do you? I respond to this by ignoring those posts.
I agree that some people seem to want to provoke, and that ignoring them should probably be the standard response. I think the catch is, in a group like this, that it's hard to get everyone to do that.
> 6. ... I'm not sure why the penalty being exacted here--a one week ban from posting--is so strict.
Strictness is relative, it's kind of new, making it time-limited at all. :-)
Bob
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