samsloan wrote:
>However, as applied in the USCF Issues Forum, anybody is
>allowed to attack Sam Sloan including even calling me a
>child molester, but nobody was allowed to make even a
>mildly negative comment about Susan Polgar, Paul Truong
>or Joel Channing.
Your point being?
Look, Sam, there are people who are members of polite society.
They respond to social pressure (like the social pressure of
having everyone in a newsgroup tell you to stop doing something).
They follow the rules, Yes, they can be complete assholes, but
they are *rule-following* *social-pressure-responding* assholes.
Then there are outcasts like you who are not part of polite
society. They ignore social pressure, and thus have to be
forced to conform. They don't follow the rules, and thus
have to be forced to follow the rules. Neither group can
do as they please; the difference is that members of polite
society do it voluntarily.
Members of polite society are allowed a lot of leeway when
dealing with outcasts. This leeway is needed, because the
outcasts only understand force. The best example of this
is a courtroom. The judge is there to deal with outcasts.
He is allowed to say things and do things that the outcasts
who appear before him are not allowed to say or do. Another
good example is a forum moderator. He is given many powers
and excused from many rules the better to apply force to
outcasts like yourself.
You *can*, if you wish, decide to no longer be an outcast
and to join polite society. There will be a transition
period until people figure out that you are serious, but
the day will come when you get all the rights and privileges
that are currently denied you.
Or you can go on as you have been, getting kicked in the
teeth again and again, all the while wondering why everyone
else gets some slack but you never do.
Your choice.
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