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Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:13:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> I would like to see .debate be able to exist as something worthwhile,
> but I sense that with each debate which explodes into a ravaging god vs
> science debate, we lose another of the folks who are interested in
> serious debate. I'm not sure how much longer I'll be participating in
> .debate. If I'm right in this perception, will it be worth having
> .debate at all if all it becomes is a place for people to spout of about
> their views on religion, with no one even interested in understanding
> the opposing view? Will the increased tensions that I think may also be
> building in .debate overflow into the rest of the server?
No! I disagree! Etc etc. :) Darned UUs!
Any forum is only as good as its practitioners. Since LUGNET
went 'live' I've operated with the assumption that .debate matters
stay in .debate, and expect others to do the same--I've only once
seen what might possibly be 'overflow of tensions' that, without
.debate, would not have been there. It's strange to say, but I
can't imagine LUGNET without .o-t.debate being quite as much
"fun" (gadzooks, that word)--but I'm fully willing to admit that
my holistic perception may be in the minority. Naturally, I'd
love it if everyone behaved humanistically, and maybe I'm naive
to assume that everyone will. I'd like to think I haven't been
really let down in my years here, even at the times when we've
felt around the rough edges of our LEGOversal sociability.
I'd be curious as to the general perception of the readership
about .debate--I know a lot of people deliberately stay out of
it, some like me sort of dip through it voyeuristically, and then
there are a handful who really really enjoy the sparring.
My inclination is to take the Dutch attitude--control the flow,
because the water's going to come whether you build the dikes
or not (Interestingly this is the attitude often cited for legal
marijuana and other, eh, services--but that's another .debate).
When you get this many intellectually gifted souls in one place,
from all over the world, all different ages, sexes, colours,
creeds, religions--you're going to have fresh encounters. Even
when nobody's mind is changed, at least someone reading probably
learns *something* they didn't know before, and that's an incre-
mential victory, isn't it?
In short, I feel like it ain't broke, so I don't really think it
needs a-fixin'.
But that's just my NGL 0.05.
hartelijke groeten,
Lindsay
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