Posted by Dinah on June 15, 2005, at 9:39:02
In reply to Re: please be civil » Toph » Gabbi-x-2, posted by Dr. Bob on June 15, 2005, at 1:13:28
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20050530/msgs/510659.html
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20050610/msgs/512441.html
I do not wish to see Alexandra PBC'd or blocked because of me. So I'm not requesting that. I'm just trying to point out that there is substance behind Gabbi's frustration.To tell you the truth, I was going to answer the post in question, thus lifting the DNP, because I felt the situation that was causing me distress might be far enough in the past. But then I read
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20050614/msgs/512722.html
And realized that I was wrong. Since poster A has pretty close to a fifty percent chance of being me, and another fifty percent chance of being another poster - in the application of everyday logic anyway - not formal logic, because I took ethics rather than logic as my philosophy elective. I do not believe poster A's motivations were accurately represented, if poster A was indeed me. In fact, lack of accurate representation of poster A motivations was the actual cause of the DNP, so removing it at the moment would not seem wise.
Added to the fact that the statement
" All I know...
Is that those kind of requests tend to produce a 'f*ck that I'll continue just to spite you' kind of response.
I'm not proud of that...
But there it is."excerpted from that post, could be construed to mean that poster A is the "you" referred to.
I suppose Toph could read the post about posters A & B as an example of a properly worded hypothetical under civility guidelines.
poster:Dinah
thread:511407
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20050614/msgs/513077.html