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Originally Posted by guccilvr
IN all fairness, I don't think the thread should have been closed. I think that some editing should have been done, but not closed.
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I agree with this in principle, but I'm not sure what sort of editing would have salvaged the thread, considering the editors were part of the problem.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Interestingly I find myself agreeing with Politicophile and Ustwo.
We ALL make moral judgements of some sort (despite your various protestations to the contrary). They key here, and this is what most people in this thread are missing, is what you do with that judgement.
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I am really disappointed in many here.
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Yep, that's pretty much it. As I have said over and over and over again, my legitimate OP attracted all sorts of angry, irrational responses. If nothing else, this thread tells a story about the caliber of people who frequent TFP. The story is not a good one.
I was let down by the community on this one, big time. For a second time, I am beginning to doubt the value of my membership in this community.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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