Posted by Toph on February 21, 2008, at 10:07:39
In reply to Psycho-Babble is dying - really. What a shame., posted by SLS on February 21, 2008, at 5:59:43
Its your last sentence Scott that is at the crux of my objections to the punishment system here - the assumptions, the insinuations. I and others get pissed because posters are punished because of something said that MIGHT lead others to feel accused or put down not neccessarily because the poster actually intended this or even if the reader actually felt these things. Sure, there are clever ways of avoiding this with "I" statements and the like, so in essence they are teaching us to be disingenuous, to say something other than what you truely feel. Many of us just say f*ck it, I'll say want I want and suffer the consequences.
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