Posted by Honore on February 9, 2007, at 0:07:44
In reply to Re: For ..Dr Bob please clarify...pbc issues » gardenergirl, posted by Dinah on February 8, 2007, at 23:06:28
Announcing a principle like "a small part of an otherwise civil post" or "rephraseable" opens up a Pandora's box.
Adjudications like those we're discussing here can't be closely argued (ie an interlocking and rationalized set of mutually consistent and coherent rules) ad hoc.
In the absence of elaborated judicial (ie interpretive) institutions-- obviously not possible-- there's only the good faith and attempt to be fair of the admins-- either perceived or not perceived, argued convincingly for, or not-- in any *particular* case.
I wish I could explain this idea: that interpretation (ie how to make distinctions in meaning-- civility, or any other interpretive yardstick) are too complex, too multiply understood to yield to simple explanations of any single kind.
No one is going to be happy with this, I realize.
Honore
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