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

[Brett Paatsch]

Hooray!!! Hey welcome back Sam, I missed you ;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samantha Atkins" <sjatkins at mac.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 9:44 PM
Subject: [extropy-chat] Meta: Political topics, opinions and discussions


> 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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