[lit-ideas] Re: Eric's hypocritcal wars
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:23:35 -0400
If we held that
> people had to live according to what they say, 'Andy' would have been
> sent packing.
Please explain.
> [Original Message]
> From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/2/2006 1:12:11 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Eric's hypocritcal wars
>
> Andreas Ramos:
>
>
> "But to argue that he can say whatever he wants yet not act upon it, and
> we should honor that?"
>
> Again, nonsense. This is an email list and none, or perhaps only a few,
> know each other in any meaningful way. There is the danger of
> developing a sort of misplaced concreteness to these relationships so
> that one has the illusion that we actually know each other well enough
> to make personal comments. We don't, so we shouldn't. If we held that
> people had to live according to what they say, 'Andy' would have been
> sent packing. This is only an email list and the rules of concrete
> relationships don't apply because the full range of social interactions
> is lacking. We should expect each other to be, at the very least, civil
> and follow the written and unwritten rules of the list. Making abusive
> personal references threatens the civility of this list. Perhaps some
> people are willing to sacrifice civility for ideology but I am not.
> Civility is the ground of all political and social discourse and to
> threaten it is to undermine the discourse itself. In short, if two or
> three people agree that civility can be dispensed with for some higher
> good, then this list cannot function as it was intended.
>
>
> Sadly,
>
> Phil Enns
> Toronto, ON
>
>
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