Posted by alexandra_k on April 26, 2009, at 13:41:11
In reply to Re: Who here wants to have themselves blocked? » SLS, posted by myco on April 26, 2009, at 11:36:51
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I'm not the first to draw an analogy between a person saying 'I refuse to step up to give the black man his seat' or 'I refuse to stop smoking mj despite the laws of my land' and 'I refuse to paraphrase things such that Bob will find them acceptable'. In other words, sometimes people intentionally post against the law here because they want to bring it to peoples attention that there is such a law and that there are certain sanctions for it (e.g., a poster might intentionally say 'f*rt' without an asterisk in order to bring it to the communities attention that (sometimes) that results in a block for one year). It might inspire the community to protest either the law, the arbitrary inforcement / lack of enforcement for it, and / or the extent of the punishment for it.
Socrates accepted the consequences of his actions (corrupting the young, apparently) by accepting his punishment. He drank hemlock. While some think that acts of civil disobedience require one to accept the punishment others think that he would have been justified in fleeing from the state to escape the punishment. Similarly some think that it is acceptable to flee to escape the draft when one believes the war to be unjust.
I've talking about this before at length on numerous occasions. Basically I wasn't going to respond to this thread because my thought is that if someone really wants to know why it is that people intentionally post to get blocked then the poster can take a look through the archives at what people have to say about that.
> People dont want the block they just want the controversy and support it createsI suppose that is one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it would be to consider the huge variety of reasons that a number of people have provided including reasons provided in threads that are still active (not archived) on this forum already
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