Posted by Jost on October 31, 2006, at 10:50:10
In reply to Re: what's right vs what's wrong, posted by Dr. Bob on October 31, 2006, at 0:27:56
Politics get heated because it is a win/'lose proposition and the "loser" will be constrained by the world view of the "winner"-- true.
I really don't have any great desire to argue in favor of any proposition per se about how to run this place-- maybe if I were to devote a lot more time to thinking about it and reading the archives, and trying to understand how things really do work-- I would.
Somehow it seems much more than good enough. Would it be better if politics were more free-wheeling? or is it better to have a board that tests people's ability to be civil more than other boards-- with the same standards? Dunno.
I'm not a political theorist. or at all sure on any level.
I'm pretty much intense about politics-- and it can really hurt others here-- so I'm not against restrictions there-- although I'm sure Ive said things that could have fallen short of pure civility.
oh well. It' s a conundrum because politics is so much about what you don't like-- ie being against things is almost more definitive of our political life now than being for things-- IRL anyway.
It can be a safety valve-- people who are angry can say something uncivil without taking someone on personally-- perhaps?
I just dont' like to see people like Alex and Declan blocked-- especially for a long time.
Incidentally, did you recalculate Alex's block using your new mathematical system? Could that possibly reduce the length-- cause the recent blocks have seemed signigicantly shorter than otherwise?
Maybe I'll check that.
Jost
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