[extropy-chat] Meta: Political topics, opinions and discussions

[Samantha Atkins]

What contributes most to list discord imho is bright people who  
cannot seem to manage to discuss certain topics without going  
irrational and attacking speakers or the very act of speaking about  
some topics.  Folks, if we are going to have a chance in hell of  
pulling through this period in human history then we have to develop  
a bit more equanimity and maturity than this.   I am really disgusted  
by all the wringing of hands and slamming closed communication every  
time certain subjects come up.  It would be fine if we simply  
insisted those subjects are dealt with in a more quality way.  But  
that is not what we are doing.

- samantha

On Dec 16, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Jef Allbright wrote:

> On 12/16/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Shucks, Harvey. I came back to this list after being away for 2-3  
>> years
>> because I remember it to be a place where intelligent people can  
>> bitch and
>> moan about just about anything. :)
>
> And it is this tendency toward mental masturbation that contributes to
> the significant drop in signal to noise that we've seen.
>
> - Jef
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