(June 30, 2016 at 10:01 pm)Losty Wrote:(June 30, 2016 at 9:59 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That's a fair point. But earlier in the thread, reference was made to ideals about free speech as the basis for Staff action. That is clearly not a practical justification; it is a principled justification (one I agree with, for what that's worth). But it's not really fair argumentation to at first appeal to principle, but whe answered with principle in kind, disavow it to argue practicality.
You'll have to water it down for me, baby. I don't know what you're saying at all.
On the one hand. I'm seeing justifications saying that the staff must be practical. On the other hand, I'm seeing justifications asserting principle as the motivation. Shifting defense from principle to practicality leads me to think the defense is rather ad-hoc and not thought out.
If the staff must be practical, appealing to free speech is irrelevant. If the staff is acting out of principle, then creating an aritifical divide in how nip pics are treated, on the basis of practical law, seems equally irrelevant.
I'll make this clear right now: I will accept whatever decision the staff arrives at (I have no choice!), so long as the process is thoughtful.