03-20-2021, 10:45 AM
(03-20-2021, 09:54 AM)David Horn Wrote:(03-19-2021, 04:33 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(03-15-2021, 09:22 AM)David Horn Wrote: OK, but I'm still looking for guidance on handling this repeat offender. If there is no perceived offense, then (s)he can just blather on.
Nulla crimen sine lege.
Yes, but this is not a court of law. It's a private forum, with members free to act in their own best interests. My major concern is the never-ending thread generation, consisting of a bare link. Some are actually worth discussing, but the shear volume pushes other threads far down the history list. If (s)he would stop that, i would allow the ranting.
Of course. It might not be illegal to swear and fart, but do too much of those in a store, and you will be escorted out. To assess whether one wants to discuss the material one must read it, and in some cases the discussion of an isolated deed of some local politician (the "Senator" is some cranky State Senator from some obscure bailiwick where the population is very different from America as a whole) or someone's local contribution as a "letter to the editor" of some small-town newspaper. On occasion one might find a literary gem, but that is far from predictable.
The difference with me is that I try to make people want to respond.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.