Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
I was referring to this comment by Ben:
"Suggestion: Please don't make efforts to fragment the community."
This IMHO is hostile, because it presupposes that the mere goal of the
OP is fragmenting the community
It presupposes nothing of any goal. It describes a predictable result of
the OP's efforts, and requests those efforts to cease.
So I deny the characterisation of that request as hostile.
[mass snippitude]
If yes, with the substitution A = Ben and B = OP we get "in order for
Ben's request to make sense, Ben has to assume that the OP is making
an effort to fragment the community". This assumption on the part of
Ben, I think, is hostile, since it assumes that the OP is making an
effort to do something not nice. Whether the OP is indeed doing
something not nice, is irrelevant. If the OP does do something not
nice, the hostility is warranted. If the OP is not doing anything not
nice, the hostility is unwarranted. But the fact that Ben was hostile
is a fact :)
You were doing fine until you brought in the hostility. I must agree
with Ben that his comment was not hostile. It was merely a statement.
Not an exclamation, no name calling, just a plain request rooted in reality.
And that's a fact. ;-)
Shall we now discuss the nature of the space/time continuum and the
exact reality of quarks?
~Ethan~
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