Seems to me you're missing a couple of things here, Xeno. Xeno wrote, in part:
For example there is a wide range of intelligence here. Now somebody, we are not saying who, must be the stupidest person on FFL, though in all fairness, they may have all moved over to The Peak, that phallic symbol pointing up into the sky. Once we discover the stupidest person here, What are your plans for group discovery of and agreement on the stupidest person here? There are a lot of ways to be stupid, not all of which involve low IQ. Then, Doug has to determine if the stupidest person here person has been sufficiently maligned to warrant action against the violator for having pointed out a simple fact. If in fact this fact is true rather than false, is it a violation of the guidelines to point out a true fact? In that case the guidelines would seem to be encouraging us to lie, which is considered an unsavoury characteristic to have, lowering our veracity and social status. Thus the guidelines might seem to encourage social misbehaviour by encouraging devious thinking and prevarication. It's always possible simply not to mention it either way. Another aspect of the guidelines is in encouraging ego preservation on a spiritual forum; they undermine spirituality by protecting that very aspect of human perception that spirituality considers problematical, the ego being a false idea of self, the idea the self is a limited body-mind in a terrifying universe rather than unconstrained awareness that is the very nature of the world we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Of course, this is true only of some types of spirituality. Others value the individual self, and still others would consider the notion of "unconstrained awareness..." etc. to be heretical.
