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Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
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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:

The point of this thread starting was not for you two to start it up again,
please take your differences offline.

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.

So I started a new thread.

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:

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?)

I think in so answering you will form the basis for a fruitful discussion
about norms of behaviour.




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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 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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