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Re: Please be respectful

From Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Please be respectful
Date 2020-10-24 19:30 +0200
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These messages are very unrespectful. I don't need a screen full of this 
BS! Stop it!
On 10/24/20 12:23 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>
>
> On 10/24/2020 3:11 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 02:52:41AM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>     A couple of decades ago I had to have spinal surgery [...]
>>> What he thought of me as a person was completely irrelevant.
>>
>> Nice example. If you now try to abstract from it, that means
>> exactly that: whatever criteria each one choses to be important
>> is none of your (or my) business.
>
>     That is exceedingly poor abstraction.  What it means is I would 
> have to be a complete idiot to allow my personal feelings to interfere 
> in any way with my ability to continue living and breathing.  It also 
> means his manner, no matter how offensive, is in no way relevant to 
> his skill.
>
>     Of course, there is also absolutely no way he or anyone else is 
> going to hurt my feelings by being brutally truthful.  The only thing 
> that mattered is he felt he could fix me.
>
>> Our duty
>
>     Duty?  Are you serious?  I certainly never took an oath to 
> Debian.  Did you?  My duty is what I choose it to be, and nothing else.
>
>> is to find ways of getting along together
>
>     Who says?  It is definitely not my top priority.
>
>> while trying to respect this.
>
>     While trying to respect what?  I never, ever *TRY* to respect 
> anyone or anything.  I either do or I do not.  Neither is at all 
> difficult.
>
>> Perhaps to someone else her physician's bedside
>> manners are more important that her own life?
>
>     Are you suggesting women are idiots?  If not, then why do you say, 
> "Her"?
>
>     In the great scheme of things, I am perfectly well aware my life 
> is not particularly important.  Not very long from now I will cease to 
> live, and in less than a century - probably not much more than a 
> decade - no one will have any idea who I was or even that I ever 
> lived.  Boo Hoo. That my life is far, far less important than many 
> millions of other things does not, however, mean my life is not worth 
> much more than many things.  My personal feelings are way, way down 
> that list.
>
>> It's on us to respect that.
>
>     No, it isn't.  Not even a tiny bit.  I respect anyone's right - 
> male or female - to be as stupid as they want to be.  That does not 
> mean I respect them, nor can anyone anywhere compel me to do so.  I 
> also will not choose to mourn anyone killed by their own foolishness.
>

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