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From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 98 17:10:45 PDT
Fwd Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 18:34:17 -0400
Subject: Re: Snipers & Shooters


>From: Roger Evans <moviestuff@cyberjunkie.com>
>Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 22:34:54 +0000
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Snipers & Shooters

>>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>>Date: Wed, 30 Sep 98 10:11:38 PDT
>>Fwd Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:13:36 -0400
>>Subject: Re: Snipers & Shooters

>Since you don't doubt the poster's good intentions, then it's
>clear to me that you DO understand his or her intent. So why
>make an issue of it?

I'm afraid I don't follow you here.

>THAT is EXACTLY the sort of activity, I feel, most people on the
>list would like to see as a thing of the past. Beyond that, are
>you suggesting that people should be excused for being rude just
>because the subject of UFOs is a passionate topic for them?

Please reread what I have written - more than once - on the
necessity of civility in UFO (and, one hopes, all human)
discourse. My definition of "rude" discourse kicks in when one
poster calls another a jackass, a Nazi clone, or a charlatan, or
otherwise indulges in rhetoric that demonizes one's opponent.
But there are many grades of vigorous, aggressive debate and
rhetoric that I - and, I suspect from recent postings responding
to yours, most - would find acceptable, even entertaining and,
more important, illuminating.

>After all, this is not an oral debate, subject to sudden
>impulses and unintended breaches of civility due to the 'heat of
>the moment'. Anyone participating in this listing must sit down
>and THINK about what they are going to write. Or, at least, they
>SHOULD.

Absolutely.


>And finally, no one is suggesting that differences of opinion or
>open disagreements is unique to ufology. And no one wants
>everyone to think and talk the same way. On the contrary, the
>need to hear the nuances in each person's view makes 'getting
>rid of the static' even more important.

Agreed.


Cheers,

Jerry Clark