Posted by Lou Pilder on April 8, 2003, at 20:21:39
In reply to What Coral says . . . , posted by coral on April 8, 2003, at 18:12:18
coral,
I am always willing to accomodate any reasonable request here. For instance, NikkiT2 wanted me to quote to her instead of paraphrase, and I thought that that was a reasonable request and I have made a note to respond to her in that way that she preferrrs. But I feel that it is grossly unreasonable for someone here to request for me to not ask them to clarify something that they wrote. The example that I gave was to examine it to see if that is a type of post that could be posted here under the proposed policy that this administrative board is discussing. I included your name because I have been in discussions with you and it appears to me that you also agreed with the poster here that wanted to make a policy that, in effect, could deny me the opportunity to respond to another poster when I needed clarification of what they wrote, if the other poster invoked that I could not ask for clarification.
So I asked in my example if I could exclude those in the list, as to whether it would be acceptable here. But I would never even have my mind entertain such a thought as to tell someone that they can't ask me to clarify what I wrote, so you do not have to be concerned about that, if that was a concern of yours. I feel that to tell one to not be involved with me in a discussion on a public forum is an insult to the purpose of the advancement of mental-health and is a cruel and demeaning method that could have the potential to stigmatize and segregate and/or [ostracize] the one that is being told that they can't request clarification from them from what they wrote, and I consider any attempt to ostracize someone, and more so on a mental health board, to be extreamly cruel to the person that is being ostracized.
Lou
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