--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> 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...
>
Looks like a size 9 foot for a size 10 mouth-- a perfect fit.:-)
