[pure-silver] Re: OT: Concerning Rudeness Was: Re: Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POP with paper negs?
- From: Ryuji Suzuki <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:33:46 -0500 (EST)
From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: OT: Concerning Rudeness Was: Re: Re: NOW: Exposing
paper was Re: POP with paper negs?
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:16:49 +0100
> The unfortunate issue of rudeness is more a matter of expectations
> of what people want to give or get from being on this list.
It's amusing to note that some technical comments about a certain
technique was switched to a rudeness issue. The technique I commented
on was presented with highly assertive tone and "scientific"
reasonings which were questioned by me and a few others. All of
sudden, people who promoted that technique abandoned discussing the
validity of the claims and reasonings presented, now the technique is
only good for work prints, and there is no science. It is irrelevant
how one arrives at the result as long as the result is good. Now some
are attacking me because I'm rude, by misquoting my technical
criticism as personal attacks. It is a selfish defensive mechanism to
divert attention from vulnerability of making unjustifiably
overemphasized statements. I don't care where there is technique or
science or whatever as long as no non-science is presented as
scientific fact, etc. I don't care how little people value or
appreciate science. However, misrepresenting science is an insult to
those who spent a lot of effort to expand the knowledge of human
beings, from which everyone living in this world receives benefits
directly or indirectly. Photography is a very good example of applied
science and manufacturing where end users have been freed from
technicality and enjoyed convenience since around the turn of the
previous century. Nonetheless it is hugely depending on the effort of
those pioneers and those who advanced the science part. If you have to
use the word "attack" to understand my behavior, I persistently
question those stong emphases and suspicious uses of "science" and
this is it.
--
Ryuji Suzuki
"Keep a good head and always carry a light camera."
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