Posted by Lou Pilder on February 22, 2005, at 7:24:32
In reply to Re: Lou's request, posted by Dr. Bob on February 22, 2005, at 1:19:50
> > I am requesting that you write what your rational is to write that the following post by dancingstar is considered by you to be unacceptable in relation to the guidlines of the forum. Dancingstar wrote
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> > > Personally, I do not believe that it is a "problem," with "symptoms" or "a diagnosis."
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> I was afraid that people who do believe that it is a problem might feel it was being dismissed...
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> BobDR. Hsiung,
In your reply to me above, you wrote about dancingstar's post,[...I was afraid that people that do believe that it is a problem might feel that it is being dismissed...]
Let us look at a previous post here. In this post , the poster writes,
[...I don't belive that pills are the answer to my problem...].
In dancingstr's post, she prefaces the statement in question with {...{Personally}, {I} do not belive that it is a "problem" (quotation marks around the word problem are hers}.
The gramatical structure in both could be that they both are stateing their own point of view for {them}, not others. Gramatically, for the statements to say that others {should} not think that it is a problem universally, I can not conclude from the structure because words to indicate {others} I do not see in the statements, nor do I see imparitives in either of the statements. When dancingstar prefaced her statement with {personally}, I think that means it is personal to her, not others and that is her point of view. Granted, someone could think that since dancingstar has that point of view for {her}, then they could put her point of view in consideration here. But are not different points of view encouraged here because this is a forum for discussion of different points of view? Are you saying that because someone here has a diffeent point of view from another that they can not post it because you write,[...Im afriad that people that do think it is a problem mmight feel that it is being dismissed...]. Well, in the past post, the poster writes ,[...I don't believe that pills are the answer to my problem...]. Are you saying that that poster's point of view does not give you a fear that others might think that they should not take pills for their problems and that their use of pills is being dismissed? Could you write why what that poster wrote is acceptable here and why then that statement in that statement is different from dancingstar's statement?
Lou Pilder
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20050202/msgs/451767.html
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