Posted by Lou Pilder on October 11, 2006, at 9:22:33
DR. Hsiung,
In accordance with your reminder procedure here and in our dialog here about your policy here that states that [...deputies do not have to intervene...] in the post; http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20060918/msgs/692047.html, your reply to me was that you think that your policy is reasonable.
I then asked for you if you could write what rational you use as an authority to write that your policy here to allow the deputies to leave statements unsanctioned by not intervening that IMO have the potential to foster defamation toward Jews and me as a Jew on your forum in the post;http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20060918/msgs/692936.html
If you could reply to me about what your rational is to write here that you think that your policy is reasonable, could you consider the following hypothetical situation in your reply to me?
Let us say that ther is a volunteer fire department and someone calls to report a fire in their house. And let's say that the person that hears the request says that they are unwilling to come to their house to do what they can to put out the fire. The caller then says that if they do not do what they can, then there could be great damage from the fire. The fire department volunteer then says that they have been given a policy that says that they do not have to intervene and that they will leave the fire alone. The caller then says, "But the fire could destroy the house and possibly destroy others also." The volunteer then says to the caller, " I choose not to respond", and hangs up.
I ask;
A. Is what the volunteer did by being unwilling to respond, criminal?
B. Can the volunteer claim that their unwillingness to respond is allowed in their policy, so that by them not responding they are just following their own given policy and are allowed to be unwilling to respond?
C. Since they are volunteers, in your opinion, would it be criminal if they were paid, but not criminal if they were volunteers?
If anyone would like to email to me your discussional aspects if you would not like to post them, I would appreciate that. Also, since 1947, there has been a change in how this situation has been looked at and if you would like to see the historical paralles to that you could email me if you like.
Lou Pilder
lpilder_1188@fuse.net
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20060918/msgs/693800.html