--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of authfriend > > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:41 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reward vs. Punishment: a different > kind of > > moderation > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] > > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <rick@> > wrote: > > <snip> > > > Isn't there some evolutionary lesson in this > > > feud with Judy thing that you have yet to fully learn? If > > > there is, then we'll know you've learned it when you don't > > > take the bait no matter how tempting. > > > > When ***BARRY*** doesn't take the bait??? > > > > Rick, Barry is the *baiter*, not the baitee. > > > > (OK, I'll say it before someone else does: > > Barry's the master baiter.) > > > > No kidding, Rick, if you haven't figured this > > out long since, you simply haven't been paying > > attention, or you're letting your biases blind > > you to what's been going on. > > > > What an astonishing thing for you to say. > > > > I know you're dying for me to say that he's more to blame than you > are, but > > I actually haven't been paying attention closely enough to say that > for > > sure. > > Yes, that's clearly a big part of the problem here: > you haven't been paying attention. And you therefore > are incapable of being fair. > > All I can say is that you each nibble the bait the other dangles, and > > neither of you has proven capable of concluding your little game. > Everyone > > is sick of it. If either of you completely stops and the other > continues, it > > will be obvious which of you is the most seriously afflicted. > > Try requiring Barry to stop and see what happens. >
As nice as the concept of UN-like brokered peace is, history shows that be stopping hostilities a conflict is only frozen down and never resolved. So, how about a two-hour debate brokered by a judge or panel all participants can aggree on, and the verdict can not be appealed? If that is too eloborate we could just issue them each a gun for a duel under the big oak on next full-moon.
