Ken, I would consider it more analogous to letting mice run free in the grainery under the assumption that they'll get gorged and eventually stop feeding.
It just doesn't happen. If left unchecked to some degree (in this case the degree being the level of personal attack) the mice propigate, the grainery is consumed and everyone else starves. No good comes from doing nothing, at least in this instance. Todd Swearingen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Basterfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Banning Paul > Hakan, > I think you are right as usual. > It is time for Keith to moderate his responses. He is supposed to be the > list moderator > Ken > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hakan Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 12:21 PM > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Banning Paul > > > > > > Keith, > > > > I second this and think that Thor is right. I would > > be surprised if the members of this list supports > > name calling anyway, it is not my experience. > > > > Paul is only hurting himself and I do not think that > > it is going to escalate to a general behavior if you > > allow him to do that. > > > > Hakan > > > > > > At 09:25 PM 3/22/2003 -0800, you wrote: > > >Keith, > > > > > >I sincerely hope you don't go through with your threat > > >to censure Paul for his comments. I've believed in > > >the "sticks and stones" approach to debate. If > > >someone resorts to name calling they pretty much lose > > >their audience (unless you're watching Jerry Springer > > >or Rush Limbaugh) and render themselves ineffective. > > >Personal insults are often the result of frustration > > >from the inability to articulate one's thoughts, or > > >from a lack of a good argument. And censorship looks > > >like, well, censorship. Please reconsider. > > > > > >sincerely, > > > > > >thor skov > > > > > > > > > > > >Message: 15 > > > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:22:14 +0900 > > > From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: Re: "Arrogance of Power" and a bunch of other > > >war-related > > >threads > > > > > >Paul Schwartz wrote: > > > > > > > > except that you're not a dog, I'm not a dog, and > > >its not only dogs > > >that > > > > > you > > > > > are killing. Indeed the colonial histories of the > > >France's, > > >Britain's, > > > > > Portugal's, > > > > > Spain, etc. to infinity, don't often look too > > >honourable. So why > > >follow > > > > > their example? > > > > > > > > > > Interesting to note that the howling of dogs > > >provides the only > > >early > > > > > warning of cruise > > > > > missiles incoming to Baghdad. Its all they've got. > > > > > > > >Good, let it be known that if any tyrant chooses to > > >threaten the peace > > >of > > > >the world and murder his own people to retain his > > >illegitimate power, > > >then > > > >the howling of dogs may be the last thing he hears on > > >this earth. > > >Tyrants > > > >and fascists--like Andrew-- > > > > > >Pardon me, are you calling Andrew a tyrant and a > > >fascist? You have > > >two choices: justify that or apologize, onlist, > > >without reservation. > > >Not responding is not an option. No further warnings, > > >do it by > > >tomorrow. > > > > > > >beware, if you threaten the peace of the USA and > > > >we will unleash the dogs of hell on you. Andy, shut > > >up and go away; > > >no one > > > >cares what you think. > > > > > >You are (a) wrong and (b) right out of line. > > > > > > >Let's get back to bio diesel. > > > > > >And you will not tell this list what to do. > > > > > >Respond to the above by tomorrow. Defiance would be > > >ill-advised. Your > > >posting privileges have been withdrawn until you > > >settle this > > >satisfactorily. > > > > > >Keith Addison > > >List owner > > > > > > >Paul > > > > > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Biofuels list archives: > > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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