WGA Ain't So Bad

[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

Rhonda Lea Kirk wrote:

Hi Rhonda. I don't see it as a personal attack by commenting on
someone else's behavior they display in the group. I was not
referring to behavior that Jupiter was showing in these recent WGA
threads, but something else from an older thread. Lets just say some
of us have a long memory.

I like you, so this is distressing to me.

It *is* a personal attack. It is the precise definition of a personal
attack.

And the trouble with a long memory is that it doesn't give others the
same thing we would want for ourselves--a little slack, an opportunity
to do things differently, and a chance to live peacefully, without being
blindsided by an unrelenting adversary.

My own experience with Jupiter is very limited but I do know that he
doesn't take credit when it is not his due and that he will admit when
he is wrong or doesn't know something. IOW, the only personal evidence I
have is that he has character, so I am inclined to defend him on that
basis alone.

But this isn't a defense based on that. I just think that people have
the right to live without looking over their shoulder all the time, and
dragging someone into a thread against his will for the purpose of
insulting him is not okay.

The argument is the argument, the person is not the argument. If you
decide that someone is not worth your effort, it's fine to say so, but
it doesn't make much sense to say it more than once, in an appropriate
context.

I've had my say, and you can do what you want. I just wanted you to
understand that from my point of view, at least, this sort of thing will
never have the intended result.

rl
--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

Insisting on perfect safety is for people
without the balls to live in the real world.
Mary Shafer Iliff

 

[Scott]

I like you, so this is distressing to me.

It *is* a personal attack. It is the precise definition of a personal
attack.

And the trouble with a long memory is that it doesn't give others the
same thing we would want for ourselves--a little slack, an opportunity
to do things differently, and a chance to live peacefully, without being
blindsided by an unrelenting adversary.

My own experience with Jupiter is very limited but I do know that he
doesn't take credit when it is not his due and that he will admit when
he is wrong or doesn't know something. IOW, the only personal evidence I
have is that he has character, so I am inclined to defend him on that
basis alone.

But this isn't a defense based on that. I just think that people have
the right to live without looking over their shoulder all the time, and
dragging someone into a thread against his will for the purpose of
insulting him is not okay.

The argument is the argument, the person is not the argument. If you
decide that someone is not worth your effort, it's fine to say so, but
it doesn't make much sense to say it more than once, in an appropriate
context.

I've had my say, and you can do what you want. I just wanted you to
understand that from my point of view, at least, this sort of thing will
never have the intended result.

rl

"this sort of thing will
never have the intended result."

So WHO CARES and what are you so afraid of?? LOL!

 

[Leythos]

Nah, I think you are just a disturbed youngman with no life living in his
parents basement banging away on the keyboard 24/7 wearing a tinfoil hat.

You're close, my offices are in the lower level of my home, which I own,
and my parents don't live with me yet, but I expect that at some point,
as they are in their 60's, I will need to take them in to care for them.
I also don't wear a hat, I like the way the light bounces off my bald-
spot and gives the room that warm glow. When I do wear a hat, it's
either a cammo floppy hat (to go with the rest of the outfit) or a US
Navy ball cap from one of the groups I was with.

 

[Gaoler]

I like you, so this is distressing to me.

It *is* a personal attack. It is the precise definition of a personal
attack.

And the trouble with a long memory is that it doesn't give others the
same thing we would want for ourselves--a little slack, an opportunity
to do things differently, and a chance to live peacefully, without being
blindsided by an unrelenting adversary.

My own experience with Jupiter is very limited but I do know that he
doesn't take credit when it is not his due and that he will admit when
he is wrong or doesn't know something. IOW, the only personal evidence I
have is that he has character, so I am inclined to defend him on that
basis alone.

But this isn't a defense based on that. I just think that people have
the right to live without looking over their shoulder all the time, and
dragging someone into a thread against his will for the purpose of
insulting him is not okay.

The argument is the argument, the person is not the argument. If you
decide that someone is not worth your effort, it's fine to say so, but
it doesn't make much sense to say it more than once, in an appropriate
context.

I've had my say, and you can do what you want. I just wanted you to
understand that from my point of view, at least, this sort of thing will
never have the intended result.

rl

Thanks for your reply and the deeper explanation on your perspective.
It helps open the mind a bit hearing other people's perspectives. I may
continue to have the opinions I have about certain people in this group,
but I see your point. I'll take it under advisement.

 

[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

Rhonda Lea Kirk wrote:

Thanks for your reply and the deeper explanation on your perspective.
It helps open the mind a bit hearing other people's perspectives. I
may continue to have the opinions I have about certain people in this
group, but I see your point. I'll take it under advisement.

I knew I could count on you.

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

Insisting on perfect safety is for people
without the balls to live in the real world.
Mary Shafer Iliff