Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
>
> > Note how the political balance is tilting? The most vocal posters are US
> > based and conservative, so the liberals and those outside the US are being
> > driven away. Pretty soon the list as we knew it will be dead.
> >
> > Kristin
>
> Would you prefer if I left the list, Kristin? I'm perfectly happy to do
> that, at this point. I am, to put it mildly, a busy person. My most
> interesting conversations with list members now occur off-list, I think,
> and would presumably continue. If what you want is an echo chamber - and
> I think that you're not alone in wanting that - then the best way for you
> to get it is to ask me to leave. Do it openly, instead of beating around
> the bush with general condemnations of the conservative tilt on the list,
> and I will. I have no personal problem with anyone who is now, or has
> previously been, on the list. I don't take politics personally. But
> there are clearly a bunch of people here who think that anyone who
> disagrees with them is morally deficient, and I really don't feel any
> burning desire to put up with that all that much. Say what you mean. You
> want me off the list? Say so and I'm gone.
Gautam, I think this list, this /community/, would be a poorer place
were it not for the diversity of ideas and the quality of the minds that
hold and defend them. No, I don't agree with much of what you (or JDG,
for that matter) hold as truth, but that's fine - hopefully the exchange
of ideas in a respectful environment can continue. On a few occasions,
yes, discussions have gotten beyond mutual respect and agreement to
disagree and gotten person and nasty (such as the otherwise pointless
"Thanks alot, JDG" post.)
-jeffrey-
"I'm never wrong - I just sometimes have poor data"
