Posted by Dr. Bob on August 22, 2013, at 1:19:40
In reply to Re: Not again, posted by Willful on August 20, 2013, at 16:30:05
> I would have to reflect a bit on what could occasion this sort of bitterness in someone who had been a trusted aide, or deputy.
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> It's easy ... to weigh on the scale our seemingly emotional pleas, against some notion of neutral or distanced fairness to Lou who has irrationally become the locus of all dreads. It's easy to be blind Justice with a scale, and to believe that if you weigh fairness on one side, and our objections on the other, that the scales swing back and forth and that our feelings are not sufficiently heavy to weigh the scale down beyond reasonable doubt to the level of action.
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> maybe you ought to ask, is there something that you need to do differently?I'm doing things differently now. I think some posters may actually prefer how I did things before.
Posters could also ask if there's something they could do differently. If they didn't feel powerless.
I did wonder what occasioned 10der's post. What she said was:
> > the fact you won't block me tells me what I wondered about and wanted to know, so thanks for that.
I thought what occasioned it was wondering if I was still enforcing the rules, which I'd been saying I still was. What do you think occasioned her post?
That's an interesting image: a scale with fairness to Lou on one side and other posters' feelings on the other. That would seem to imply:
1. If I didn't block Lou it would be because those posters didn't feel strongly enough, or I wasn't taking their feelings seriously enough.
2. If they did feel strongly enough, or I took their feelings seriously enough, I'd be unfair to Lou.
I also wonder about Lou's posts. What do you think occasions them?
Bob
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