Posted by Larry Hoover on June 13, 2006, at 17:17:00
In reply to Re: blocked for 8 weeks, posted by Larry Hoover on June 9, 2006, at 10:06:21
I should probably have completed my own post.
What I think is fair is that Estella receive an apology, and compensation in the form of a "free pass" for one block of four weeks duration, to be used at her discretion, for any future offense not of the malicious sort. That's what I think is fair. But there are those precedents. Precedent is not necessarily fair.
I do not believe that expressing one's preferences by rank order, whether by comparator such as better, or by superlative such as best, nor even numerical scales, is a breach of civility.
I have yet to see her incivility explained.
I tendered my "compromise" of four weeks, in the above-referenced post, solely on the basis of how Babble *is*.
She did not characterize faith, in any way. What she did was separate out religion from faith. They are not the same thing, even when one speaks of religious faith. That is merely a shorthand saying for the type of faith under consideration.
Nobody's faith was under any sort of assault, IMHO. Faith does not require religion, but religion does require faith. If we could tease the two apart, and faith stood alone, then she could well be right, IMHO.
Lar
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