Erik said: > Mark has not done these things, and if you are suggesting he will > because his other behavior is similar to your friends, then you are > unfairly jumping the gun.
I was not suggesting that. However, it is worth thinking about the limits of freedom of speech (and I think that, in forums such as this or the Culture list or #culture, there are such limits). For the record, I consider what I've seen of Mark's contributions to be much less extreme than the situation over there. > From your description, I don't think it was handled badly. But this > situation is NOT comparable. Perhaps not, but everything you've said here would suggest that you would've handled the situation on that IRC channel differently. What would you have done? (My friend has gained considerable professional help in the months since I banned her from the channel and I've now lifted the ban. I'm very impressed by how hard she's trying to get control of her life and to manage her serious psychiatric problems. I think we made the right choice - it simply wasn't possible for us to go on providing a sort of ersatz therapy for her because it was consuming too much of our time [probably several hours a day each] and having too great an effect on our own emotional states. She now also agrees that her behaviour was beyond what we should've tolerated and far beyond what most people would've put up with.) Rich GSV Unfortunate Conflict Between Principles And Practice
