[extropy-chat] Famous author self destructs in public! Film ateleven.

[Russell Wallace]

On 6/4/05, Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Russell, I think *you* have drawn an inference that Samantha did not
> imply.

No, I think I have drawn one that she did imply.

> I do not think she was saying "Buzz of troll" to anyone other than
> Mike and even then only in relation to one particular post he made.

I think exactly the same thing. That's why I reacted.

> I like Mike. I respect Mike including respecting his concerns for
> the issues of abortion.  But sometimes Mike *does* behave like a
> troll in that he seems to be deliberately inflamatory in order to get a
> response and perhaps to ensure that he can join the conversation.

Inflammatory? No, hit the brakes on that. People go around saying
"it's just a clump of cells, terminate it, there is no moral value
there." Do you call that inflammatory?

No? Didn't think so. (As it happens, I don't either.)

Someone comes along and states the reverse view and gets called
inflammatory, and a troll? Bugger that for a lark. If you want to
debate, debate. (Or don't; enough electrons have been spilled on this
already.) But as far as I'm concerned, you don't get to assume your
view is normative and anyone who disagrees is a troll.

"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak out because I
wasn't a Communist."

> Personally, I don't think Samantha was out of line in saying what she
> said on this occassion. But that's just my opinion and I am not a list
> moderator.  Mike needs a firm hand on occassion and he would not
> I suspect respect anything less :-)

I'm not a list moderator either. I'm merely saying what I believe to be right.

- Russell