Posted by spoc on June 10, 2004, at 12:34:59
In reply to Re: Your Own Free Will, posted by shadows721 on June 10, 2004, at 11:31:10
Absolutely *no doubt* and no problem with any of that. I think this subject has veered to include things that are not on the whole being said or in dispute (you may be adding in a thread appearing elsewhere now?). I just want to keep my part and what I see as the main theme of others here clear:
I am not asking for or expecting anything from mental health care to executive protection (or any protection for that matter) to legal recourse. I am only discussing the principle of why all people in any type of community should be treated fairly, and reasonable attempts towards that made. Unless the person at issue has done something that screams out for treatment of a different type. I am just discussing basic humanitarian principles and the relative ease of observing them better, because there is intrinsic value in discussing that.
Everyone should have and expect *some* checks and balances on them when many others are involved and affected. This is just the same, and we should all welcome legitimate constructive criticism and honesty in our lives. Even when our audience or friends or family or whoever are free to go elsewhere. We get nowhere by sticking our heads in the sand. People are welcome to believe there is no issue here but the evidence that there is one and the desire to help correct it shouldn't be discounted/disregarded either.
Please see that there is a vast difference between all that and what is sometimes being assumed to be asked for in this matter. Few of us would endorse standing idly by in life when they genuinely feel some are being treated unfairly, or similarly, are hooked into a favoritism network. Those are things we don't find trivial or unreasonable in real life. I don't know why it seems to look so different to some in this venue.
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