Posted by Lou Pilder on March 16, 2008, at 16:45:41
In reply to Dereliction of duty, posted by Toph on March 16, 2008, at 16:31:21
> > Dr. Robert Hsiung owes us nothing.
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> If you've been here 8 years, does he owe you anything for the research profitted off you and your contemporaries?
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> >Consider PB just one more unmoderated blog that is so pervasive on the Internet. I think we should just be glad that this forum exists at all.
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> I do. but I think you might have just dissed the monerators there.
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> > If anyone would care to answer: Exactly what is it that you find it necessary for Dr. Bob to be here?
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> I don't want him here, I just want to hear what he has to say about the last several pages of admin posts.
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> > What can't you do while he is not here?
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> Huh?
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> > He has no duty to make you happy.
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> Really, that's what I was hoping he could do for me. How disappointing.
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> > In the 8 years I've been posting here, I have never seen Dr. Hsiung give medical advice. What else do you need him for?
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> My car needs washing.
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> > Simple question: How does Bob's absence affect YOU.
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> Most of the time, not at all. Lately, it pisses me off.
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> > So far, I've asked this question with other words. No one has attempted to answer it. If you cannot answer this fundamental question, I don't see that there is much to discuss. I think there is a mob mentality here, and I wish people would just talk about themselves rather than allude to some global consensus.
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> > What do we need Bob for? That's another attempt to get to a straight answer out of somebody. Saying that some percentage of people are mad and sad and lost without our leader, Dr. Bob, does not address the questions I've posed in previous posts.
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> > I hear children whining. It must be me.
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> > - Scott
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> Though maybe an unfair analogy, one could ask why do we need George Bush? He doesn't do much for me personally, but as a citizen, if Dick Chaney resigned, you can bet W's handlers would fashion a statement for the president to offer so as to reassure the masses that our country was in order without Halliburton man. I feel that I have a right to expect that the country's executive govern. Unfortunately, Bob doesn't govern here anymore like he did when you were first attracted to this place. It would be nice if he told us why he doesn't and why he has not intention of doing so again, even when there is a problem.Toph,
You wrote,[...maybe an unfair analogy...]
I think that to make that determination as to what it could mean to be fair or unfair, we could look at the meaning of {fair}.
The generally accepted meaning of fair is that fairness is compared to impartiallity, free from self-interest and/or prejudice.
In your presentation of G.W Bush as the one in the analogy leaving and the analogy as I see it is about leaving, then you write as to what if he left, I do not know of anything in your analogy that I can see that could {rule out} that the analogy is a {fair} one. I may be mistaken and if anyone could post here what could rule out the analogy being fair, I would appreciate that, for I can not see any partiality or prejudice or self-interest in Yoph's post.
Lou
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