Posted by Lou Pilder on July 15, 2005, at 9:32:23
In reply to Lou's response to aspects of this thread-defam?, posted by Lou Pilder on July 15, 2005, at 9:25:34
> Friends,
> It is written here,[...do you feel defamed by this?(Dr. Hsiung suggesting not to read in the first place)...]and [...look into legal recourses...]
> Defamation to a person can occur when one is stigmatised. The stigmatization in most jurisdictions to be illegal is not the type of defamation that I feel, although it could be in very spacific situations.
> If one put a sign up in front of a fish store owned by a ,let's say, a Vietnamese person, and the sign said something like,[...remember,it is your option not to buy fish here in the first place...], could that be defaming to the Vietnamese shop owner?
> But let's go further. Suppose tht sign maker was the Mayor of the town.
> Lou
>
Friends,
Now let's get a little deeper.
Suppose in the example above, the sign maker of [...remember, it is your option not to buy fish here in the first place...] and then has another sign next to that sign that says something to the effect that [...you could get sick from eating the fish in this store so it could be better for you not to buy in the first place...].
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:527818
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20050628/msgs/527969.html