RE: Atheists go to Heaven too
August 1, 2013 at 7:54 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2013 at 7:55 pm by Whateverist.)
(August 1, 2013 at 7:11 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(August 1, 2013 at 6:23 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: He should only reveil that if he has the consent of the person who made the sock.
Why?
The person is guilty of a rule break. We get to see other rule breakers shamed.
The person who deceived everyone has no rights to protection as far as I can see.
GC called it out straight away to me. The person ganged up on GC using the sock.
The reason the rule about socks exists is because it's dishonest and deceitful.
I'm a big fan of BadW but I agree with you that even handedness is justice.
Frankly the technicality of the sock puppet troubles me less than the sense that someone like GC needs to be driven off. If we want to hear all voices and not restrict membership to the choir, then we all have to refrain from playing king of the mountain. If someone is disturbed and disturbing people that might be different, but GC represents the thinking of a broad sweep of Americans and is far from crazy. No atheist here should feel so empowered that they can tell a theist member that this forum isn't big enough for both of them.
That said, I'm all for recognizing that the infraction may not have been intentional. It is the lack of fair play which motivated making the sock puppet that I object to. Maybe something appropriate expressed to GC acknowledging the wrong doing toward him would be enough? Whatever is done, I think GC needs to hear that we as a community do not condone this sort of thing.