My Two Knuts (long) (In Which Eileen Steps In)

[lucky_kari]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
> If I don't have the desire to say something I feel is relavent, I 
will.
> 

Even if it's totally obnoxious. Yes, we've seen that. 

> Iggy here:
> 
> First off I'll say that you take personal affront to anything I 
have said,
> and feel the need to express it like this, I would recommend next 
time
> sending me a direct mail so that the rest of this list doesn't need 
to be
> involved in your personal feelings towards me. 

No, it doesn't cut both ways. If you can get personal (without even 
having any reason to do so), I can call you on it. 


> To my recollection, I have never called anyone names, nor made any 
personal
> attacks against anyone on either side.  

Well, luckily this is an email list. To take one obnoxious example. 

"It's the creedo of any good con artist. "Earn their trust, show them 
you're their friend, and fleece them behind their back." 

followed by "I'm not saying that Cindy was this type since, as I said 
earlier, I don't know her well enough to fraw a reliable 
conclusion... but you asked a question, and I answered it from my own 
experience."

Well, that doesn't cut it. We have a phrase for that type of 
character assasination.

"But Brutus is an honourable man. So are we all, honourable men."

It is not *allowable* to assassinate someone's character, with no 
knowledge of the events, and then say that you're not *really* saying 
it, just sort of somehow implying it without knowing what's going on, 
but of course you could be wrong blah blah blah.

The end effect is the same. It's still character assasination, and 
you should be ashamed of yourself. 

Susan:
>by the way when you say "us" please be sure to exclude those of "us"
that do not feel the same way you do.

Of course, you're not included in "us!" *Us* are the people who have 
suffered one and a half years of this. Who have lost friends, shed 
our tears, worked hard to mend differences without any results. 
Believe me, I don't think any of *us* would miss Iggy's libellous 
remarks about con-men and televangelists. 

If you're ok with character assasination on Iggy's part, I would 
indeed suggest you leave the list. 

Eileen