Posted by AMD on June 26, 2005, at 23:00:00
In reply to Friendly suggestion... » AMD, posted by 10derHeart on June 26, 2005, at 21:14:39
> IMO, this post comes awfully close to being uncivil. It sounds sarcastic toward Deneb. Also,
*** This is a good example of what I'm talking about. What are we supposed to be on here, a bunch of drones? People have opinions about things, and one way of expressing the strength of those opinions is by choice of words. So "give me a break" was not "uncivil," it was indicitive that I think the difference between "disgusting" and "dislike" is of valid degree. I don't "dislike" the censorship. I think it's "disgusting." Two very different levels of opinion. Notice I don't think that personal attacks shouldn't be banned. It's criticism of ideas that upsets me, and Dr. Bob, frankly, proved my point by banning me based on said criticism.
If I had been calling /someone/ disgusting, aside from some policy (and let's not confuse the two), that might be different. However, these words exist in our vocabular for a reason, and unless we are to list a series of acceptable vocabulary words a priori, I think choosing one or the other should not be such an issue of concern. Keep in mind, too, that we are all human, and sometimes our word choices are imperfect. ***
I might feel somewhat put down if a poster asked me to "give [them] a break" and called me unreasonable.
*** Aha! That is the key point. I didn't call anyone unreasonable. I said the /notion/ was unreasonable (and obviously that's an opinion). This is where your argument (and others') is flawed. You seem to be confusing criticism of an idea with criticism of a person. They are not the same thing. (If they were, I suspect former Presidents Clinton and Bush wouldn't be yamming it out in public forums.) ***
Could you have posted your disagreement with her take on things, yet left those comments out?
*** No. That would have made the same statement without inbuing it with the seriousness with which I take it. Perhaps I could have been less sarcastic and more literal, but it would have served the same end. ***
> BTW, "disgusting" may be a perfectly valid adjective. But it's not perfectly okay, under*** You're making the same mistake here you made above, confusing criticism of an idea, rule, concept, notion with criticism of a person. ***
I hope this clarifies my point.
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