Posted by twinleaf on December 12, 2009, at 9:40:34
In reply to Re: Babble Almost Gone, posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2009, at 0:36:59
You're right. For things to be real and meaningful, they do have to be messy, sometimes. One might go a little far in one direction while under the influence of one feeling, but then there's almost always a return to the middle. There can be a lot of growth in this process. Trusting posters to make these natural corrections, without having to keep such extreme "civility" guidelines in mind at every moment, probably would have keep Babble much more alive and meaningful. The guidelines we run into here are nothing like anything we encounter in daily life! You made such a good point.
This whole disaster makes me think of the Greek tragedies, where really extreme terrible things occurred, slowly but surely, as a result of human weakness. The weaknesses themselves were just normal human ones - nothing extreme or unusual-but the fact that they weren't understood, or taken responsibility for, but were instead acted upon, led, slowly but invariably, to tragic, devastating endings.
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