Posted by Dinah on March 13, 2006, at 1:11:50
In reply to I agree with Racer..., posted by agent858 on March 12, 2006, at 19:18:36
> The only way I can see to make it work...
> Would be to have people thinking about things logically rather than emotionally.
> And that means... People need to learn not to take it personally.I was responding mostly to this. I would certainly not come to the same conclusion about those who advocate civility in the discussion of politics. That they weren't thinking logically.
Nor is Dr. Bob the only person who understands the civility guidelines in regard to politics. I might not grasp any particular ruling any more than I do on any of the other boards. Reasonable people can differ in how they interpret things. But I grasp the concept easily enough.
If I am impassioned about anything, it's not about one policy or another or one political agenda or another. But I do feel passionately about mutual respect and tolerance and civility. About speaking of others as you would wish to be spoken of yourself. I feel very very impassioned about that.
I'm passionate about Eracism, about the Ulster Project, about the ecumenical movement, about bipartisanism, about that Phil Donahue show near the end of the Cold War where citizens of the USSR met with citizens of the US and found that they weren't so different. And I'm passionate about civility on Babble. Perhaps even more so on Religion and Politics. Because, to me, the civility rules aren't all that different from those other things I love so well.
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