--- iaamoac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you want a serious discussion of religion, we should
> > probably all agree to adopt an agnostic viewpoint for the duration.
>
> But what kind of discussion is it where one adopts a viewpoint that
> one does not seriously believe? Why should those who disagree with
> agnostics be forced to adopt their viewpoint?
>
> More imporantly, why is it so radical to simply insist upon a basic
> level of *civility* from all List-Members.
Who's deffinition of civility are we going to use? Your's? I know you would
not want to use my deffinition becouse if you did you would be hard pressed
to find someoen who wasn't. It seems to me that just by the fact that you are
asking for civility shows that you haven't thought it through. Why not listen
to what others MEAN and forget your silly notions of civility?
>Sure, I have been known
> to engage what has previously been described here as "rough and
> tumble adult conversation", but when I apply "zingers" in my post, I
> at least accompany it with content. In my mind, the posting of mere
> insults, without any accompanying substantive content is
> inappropriate - and hence I am objecting to it.
I haven't seen anyone engaging in "posting of mere insults". On another list
where such a practice was commonplace I once posted the following.
""
Hold up your hand, fingers extended, palm out. Now put your smallest finger
down. Interpret the resulting formation as unary with your thumb in the first
postion, now traslate to binary.
""
Now that is a good example of "posting mere insults" (even if I do say so
myself). Feel free to use this as a basis of comparison, In situations you
need mear insults, or at geek/nurd dinner parties when you need a bit of
rough and tumble humor, just as long as you never take or mean it personaly.
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