Fair enough Arlo ... Ian
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote: > [Ian] > You're also creating straw men too ... > > [Arlo] > My comments were not directed at you, Ian. I know that your call for love and > respect did not include the type of "polite insulting" or "... but I love you" > rhetoric I was pointing towards. My comments were that I've seen "polite > insulting" go not only unchallenged on the list, but polite insulters turn and > act smugly superior to (in this case) DMB for "name calling". And that was > part > of the the de-evolution from Dan's initial comments for detente. > > I did refer to your words once, and that was only to point out how immediately > Marsha jumped on my words, but ignored the same focus (on Steve/DMB) when > expressed by you, Mark or Dan (e.g.). > > I do agree with Dan (and I think you) in that something like 95% of the time > calling someone a name is unnecessary and destructive. And while its never > constructive, sometimes its necessary and we all draw that line somewhere. > Where I may disagree with you is on the occasional necessity of calling a fool > a fool. But I never meant to imply you supported dishonest "polite insulting". > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
