You're making a rational point about an irrational action.
I doubt that your administrators thought that they were making their
campus any safer -- they were simply covering their asses by taking
your words out of context and responding in a way that would shield
them from possible criticism.
I agree with Stephen. However the comment that got me into hot water
was a direct statement that I am not violent. It has to be
completely mis-interpreted to be taken as a "terrorist threat".
Ironic that, in the post, I was making the point that simply
screening for those who have stopped taking prozac or who have had
violent images in their mind would be a ridiculous way to protect
ourselves.
Bill Scott
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On 27 Feb 2008 at 21:55, William Scott wrote:
The correspondence below is a thread of TIPs that recently happened. I
took part in it as you can read <snip>
Along with others, I'm very sorry to hear about this. But given current
tragic events, our inability to ensure that campuses are truly safe, and
the fact that no school is immune from random violence (not even in
Canada, where we used to be smug), the reaction is understandable. Once
Bill's e-mail went to the administration, I think they had no choice but
to do something.
Two lessons I draw from this:
1) Never, never say anything which is open to such misinterpretation (not
even the commonplace, "I'll kill you if you do that"), and never, never
joke about such things. I observe this rule with a scrupulousness
approaching paranoia when passing through pre-flight security.
2) As I've said before, posting on TIPS is like publishing in a journal,
except that what you say on TIPS will reach far more people, many of whom
will not be part of our cosy group. We should remember this just before
we hit the "send" button.
Stephen
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