John D. Giorgis wrote: >At 09:06 AM 4/20/02 -0500 Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: > >>I think you've got your sensitivity set a wee bit too high. We're >>writing words here, and we can't read the faces and body language of >>the others on the list to more fully understand their intent and mood. >>What comes across to you as "bashing" could in fact be considerably >>closer to "constructive criticism" in the mind of the original poster. >> > >No...... maybe I don't hold "bashing" to be as negative a term as some >people are taking it, but "bashing" *is* what occurs on most discussion >lists. "Constructive Criticism" is critcism designed to construct >changes. Since that is impossible on a List of this nature (Dubya hasn't >subscribed yet (though he probably should! :)), the comments are clearly >criticism with the intent of taking the moral stature of the United States >down a notch among the Brin-L readers. Thus, the comments are "bashing." > By that definition, nearly all critical judgment on this list could be construed as "bashing". For example, you have no direct control over events in the Middle East so any comments critical of Arabs would be "bashing."
Doug
