--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > Write the ticket and get on with your life so > > > I can get on with mine. Don't keep standing > > > there demanding that I apologize to you. I have > > > *no problem* with paying the fine. > > > > I don't really know the issue here, just out of curiosity > > and for the sake of the fun of it: If the fine was to > > apologize, what would you do? > > Just for the sake of the fun of it, if a frog > had wings he wouldn't bounce along on his butt > when he jumped. ( And I guess the same 'what if' > scenario applies to "Yogic Flyers." :-) > > The "fine" *isn't* to apologize. But some people > are trying to *make* that the fine. > > > Lets say Rick says, the fine is to apologize to the > > person you insulted, would you be okay to say so?
But the fine isn't the ultimate punishment. In the speeding analogy, if Barry doesn't apologize, he''ll be fined; but if he refuses to pay the fine, he'll be thrown in jail. On FFL, if the fine is equivalent to an apology, and he refuses to apologize, the equivalent to being thrown in jail would be to be thrown off the forum, and he's already said that would be OK with him. Barry would rather accept the ultimate punishment that Rick can impose, in other words, than apologize for an insult. Or to put it another way, it's more important to Barry to be able to freely insult people on the forum than to be able to continue to post to it. <snip> > If Fairfield Life turned into the kind of place > where people were expected to apologize for the > behavior that the majority of people declared > "inappropriate," I would bail from it far more > quickly than I bailed from the TM movement, which > tried to do exactly that. After all, as Barry said about overposters; "WHO CARES if they're feeling 'attacked.' That's just narcissism and self-importance, in my opinion. Using it as an excuse to be an asshole is even *more* narcissism and self-importance." Oh, wait...
