Posted by Lou Pilder on July 10, 2014, at 9:47:47
In reply to Re: The Hsiung-Pilder discussion, posted by Dr. Bob on July 9, 2014, at 23:56:51
> > You say that it is your intent to protect members, including myself, by applying your remedy to sanction statements that could put down or accuse another. But it is also then implying that if you use your option to not respond to me, that you will then not use your remedy to protect me from the stone-throwers here.
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> 1. I do sometimes use my remedy to protect you. Most recently:
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20140304/msgs/1062264.html
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> 2. It's tricky (requires skill, knack, or caution) because if I apply my remedy, the poster could feel like I'm throwing a stone at them.
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> 3. It fits with that policy I like:
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> > > See everything; turn a blind eye to much; correct a little.
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> BobMr. Hsing,
Note my objection to your use of selective enforcement of your rules as can be seen by your reply to me here that I am responding to.
Time and space do not allow me at this time to expound on what a subset of readers could think you are admitting to be doing here as {selective enforcement}. To sanction one stone-thrower does not prevent the harm that could come to me by you allowing others to inflict emotional pain upon me with defamation of insults to my character that you allow to be seen as civil and supportive and will be good for this community as a whole by you not posting your tagline to be civil to the defamation toward me to the statement where it is posted originally. Your sanction of one does ot annul the fact that there are other defamatory postings allowed to be seen by you as civil where they are originally posted, nor does it address the antisemitic statements being also allowed to be seen here as supportive by the nature that there s not your tagline to please be civil where the anti-Semitism is posted originally.
In fact, your admission of using selective enforcement here is contrary to your TOS as in your FAQ. As to if a subset of readers could think that your intent is to allow harm to those that you want to be harmed, that is a separate subject that I would like to keep separate for now. This is because a rational reader could think that if the fire department came to a house on fire and there was a tree on fire in the yard and put that fire out but left the house to burn, that their selective enforcement of their obligation to put out the fire was not done and could have had a guilty reason in their minds to allow the house to burn down. This "guilty mind" is a concept that is used in determining the {intent} of one that harms another either by themselves inflicting the harm or allowing others to inflict the harm to another when they could have prevented the harm. Some could think that for the fire-fighters to watch the house burn down when they could have prevented it, that those fire fighters were culpable as if they started the fire themselves.
The historical record shows the tragic consequences to those that were victims of discrimination by selective enforcement. Your TOS could lead a subset of readers to think that when you say that members are to be civil at all times and that being supportive takes precedence, that you mean that you will not use selective enforcement in applying your rules here.
Lou Pilder
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20140304/msgs/1068165.html