Author: Peter Davison
Date: 09:15:08 09/07/00
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On September 07, 2000 at 11:59:37, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On September 07, 2000 at 10:35:44, Peter Davison wrote: > >>What is even sadder, and possibly even more shallow, is how the group dynamic >>suddenly changed from the 'ignoring treatment' of Marc van Hal, to a number of >>supposedly sympathetic advices; whilst simultaneously creating a new victim for >>Group attack in the form of Co(hat)me. The secret of being 'in' the Group >>appears to be a follow-my-leader process in knowing who to make the next victim. > >Now we only need to hear Côme confess to his sins and receive collective >forgiveness from the benevolent forum. Then everything would be back to normal >without anything really happening at all, except for a few threads that is. But >they'll soon be in the archives, not bothering the conscience of the members >unless accessed by accident. > >You were wrong about Côme being shallow. Careful. Is Come shallow or was his post shallow? If it was the post, then this extension to the person can start a new war. Best not to assume malevolence at first sight. >This forum encourages people to be >shallow and disinterested in the opinions and feelings of others unless there's >something to be gained. The forum referred to _is_ the people. It is not a forum, it is a club. Different. If you said the people were inclined already to be disinterested in everything unless there was something to be gained, that the 'gain' took the form of positive advantage for oneself, or negative disadvantage for the 'opponent', in classical chess zero-sum style, then I would agree with you. > It wouldn't win a humanitarian achievement award. Well spotted. Zero-sum game playing is the antithesis of humanitarianism. This place attracts zero-sum game players by its very nature. Broken, and difficult to see how to repair. >I >wouldn't have chosen this place to ask a honest and sincere question. A mistake >by Marc IMHO. If you see this, then why are you here? > >Mogens.
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