Posted by zeugma on March 5, 2006, at 11:55:39
In reply to Re: Policy as opposed to people, posted by Dinah on March 5, 2006, at 11:09:44
> Well, as you know, it is against Babble policy to declare that those Babblers (known or unknown) who declare their core essence through their adherence to one policy or another to be lacking in wisdom, lack of respect for life or others. Any more than it would be in keeping with Babble policy to comment on someone's lack of wisdom, lack of respect for life or others, for any reason other than the policies they believe in.
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> No matter what you believe the truth to be.
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> And since reasonable people can disagree on perfectly good grounds about even the most heated of debate topics, why is it not possible to merely state what you believe and to express a lack of understanding for other beliefs.>>because stating what i believe, on certain topics, would be uncivil, by the criteria of this site. So would most of the utterances found in my local newspapers that are of an editorial nature, or those of newspapers from different locales. Now you've said previously that politics blocks result from people misunderstanding its nature, or as I will charitably put it, understanding its nature but saying things not suited to its nature regardless of the consequences.
To write on the Politics board really does require an approach more like that expressed in the Chess section of my local newspaper (that is currently suing the Federal government, a fact that has me upset, angry, and inclined to say uncivil things about the way the -, but I won't, because I understand too well the nature of the forum I am in) than the editorial page.
Rather unnatural.
Well, I'm not only boring myself and others, I'm getting very upset, as well.
By the way (and maybe I'm reading too much into it) but it was gracious of you not to put my name in the subject of your second reply to me. It was courteous.
The little things matter so much.
but anyway, the issue is not my own problems here, but 5's, or 8's, or 7 of 9's <sudden starry-eyed look>. I can't help thinking that the gracious things you've said... (ellipsis is there because neither you nor I are optimists, no other reason).
-z
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> But I am spitting in the wind. Because I distinctly remember saying tis over and over and over again, and I find I'm boring myself. :)
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