On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:12:24 -0500, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to disagree. There was a recent thread here that was started with a > religious/ethnic joke that one of us (yours truly) thought was > inappropriate, and said so. [It wasn't about my ethnic group or my > religion, but I just think that all religious and/or ethnic jokes should be > off limits in this sort of a forum, but that's only just my opinion, and > apparently I'm in the minority on that point.] It did not become a war > because I chose not to fuel the ethnic fires with any further reply. > Instead, the thread went on "peacefully" for days with more jokes and the > occasional defense of the "appropriateness" of telling ethnic and/or > religious jokes. Yes, there was peace, but it was not a "good thing". > > Fred >
I must have missed the ethnic joke thread. Other than that, It seems to me that we've had a few contentious discussions that might have ended up in flame wars, but for level heads. It may be a time of peace, but it seems to me a rather fragile peace. One word in the wrong place might have set things off in an entirely different direction. OTOH, maybe it's a good thing that pototentially dangerous situations seem to be handled in a mature way. Maybe we're growing <LOL>. cheers, frnak -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
