01-09-2021, 11:50 AM
(01-09-2021, 10:20 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-09-2021, 10:16 AM)David Horn Wrote: No one gets to threaten anyone (that I won't tolerate), but being outspoken isn't a reason for anything but a spirited response from someone else. That's the entire point of this place.
Even Classic isn't allowed to threaten? It is almost instinctive in him, and harmless in that he doesn't follow through.
I suppose...
His predecessor was banned on the old board for telling someone to commit suicide. Odin and I took that to the moderated, and I did so with the suggestion that he could not post until he apologized on the thread. Maybe I see things too literally for my own good (that is Asperger's syndrome for me). One never knows if one is communicating to someone severely distressed who is contemplating ending it all. I've been there.
His threats are of the sort that says "people will be angry", which is not specific enough to be excessively troublesome. I issue my threats about global warming in that it will cause political chaos of the worst kind as people
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.