Hello Nick,
"John Reimer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I'll admit I'm not always right or even discrete in my approach. But
I am very serious about standing against what I consider very
dangerous material.
Yea, a few *drawings* of beings that are clearly inteded as sentient
anyway are "dangerous". I guess people are going to see that and get
killed by it, or turn into serial rapists, or it will cause
earthquakes to destroy us all. Shit, I guarantee there's more explicit
stuff than that in an ordinary vetrinary medicine textbook. Don't try
to tell us you're not blowing it completely out of proportion.
Uh... it seems there's some misunderstanding here. Maybe the material isn't
there anymore? Though, I don't really feel like testing that theory.
I guess that would make me look a little stupid now, wouldn't it?
And from the vantage point of the "rock I'm under" apparently things
are pretty bad now even though I've seen and heard a lot over the
years.
Here's another thing:
Remember "SuperDan"? This is a good example of a guy who you all
exercised "pressure" on to conform to your etiquette (I especially
remember Jarrett doing so, interestingly). Why? By what standard?
Was he not playing according to the rules of "niceness"? Apparently
even this community has limits. Walter didn't even step in when it
was at its worst. I couldn't stand SuperDan's language or sick
analogies.... but his antics were completely fair game in a community
like this... and those of you who resisted him for it were
practically hypocrites, if you will pardon my directness. I wonder
what kind of character assassinations went on then?
When a person, either superdan, or this time, you, comes around here
and starts directly attacking other people out of the blue, yea, you
can expect the rest of us are going to lash back.
Yes, that's probably true. Some of the lashing occurs without knowledge,
however. I'm not satisfied that I approached this very well either. There,
see? Your intolerance has just made me feel insecure about my approach!
You accomplished something without violence.
If I publicly denounce something, it may be rejected, refuted,
ignored or even detested. But I believe there is sometimes very good
reason to confront things publicly, just as there is equal right for
you to reject what I'm saying publicly.I
Yes, John, please save us from bearophile's drawings.
Okay. Um. How about I just not save you from it. I get the feeling you
don't want to be saved. :)
-JJR
