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Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:07:14 GMT
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I think we have discussed this before(?). I remember thinking that we are
constrained by the attributes assigned to the "partisan" in the final para
on this page:
http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/phaedo9.htm
I do not think the text I quote answers you question, because I doubt there
really is an ‘answer’ to it - but there may well be a consensus view. Time
will tell I suppose.
Scott A
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In another thread...in lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Courtney writes:
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> > The point of this thread starting was not for you two to start it up again,
> > please take your differences offline.
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> I would like to dig into this notion a bit more. I think there are
> situations where it is flatly incorrect to advocate this. I want to stay out
> of the particular situation that provoked the request and not use it as an
> example, but I would like to discuss the principle.
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> So I started a new thread.
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> Here is the question to those that seem to advocate "taking it to email"
> whenever one or more parties to a discussion seem to go out of the bounds of
> normal discourse:
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> When is this not an appropriate thing to do? Can you, the advocates of that
> course of action, come up with examples of when it isn't? Why isn't it in
> those cases? (or, alternatively, are you saying that "taking it to email" is
> ALWAYS the correct course no matter how bad the social transgression or how
> one sided it might be?)
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> I think in so answering you will form the basis for a fruitful discussion
> about norms of behaviour.
>
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