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Skriven 2006-07-23 15:50:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5102.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: I'm Gone
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On 22 Jul 2006 15:04:38 -0700, "John W. Kennedy"
<John.W.Kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

>Josh Hill wrote:
>> OTOH, if Paul does decide to take an aggressive stance,
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>He has boasted elsewhere of intending to return incognito.

I saw that -- in fact, he says he already has returned -- which is one
of the reasons I'm concerned.

>I don't know whether stalkers are capable of suppressing their
>behavior.

While Paul has a sarcastic, critical, outspoken side, I think most
here would agree that he's usually personable. Were that not the case,
I wouldn't hold out hope.

From what I've seen, one of the most common motives for stalking is to
get revenge or satisfy honor in an asymmetrical conflict: it's a
terrorism of sorts. And this conflict is made asymmetrical by the fact
that this is JMS's newsgroup. To the extent that the intrinsic
unfairness of the asymmetry motivates Paul, it seems to me that a
compromise could work well.

Which isn't to say that I wouldn't be concerned that Paul, being by
his own description outspoken in real life and of course pissed at
JMS, would revert to making personal criticisms that are inappropriate
to a moderated group: I did some of that myself a few weeks ago, to
the discomfiture of the moderators. But since Paul is here anyway, it
seems to me that we have nothing to lose and much to gain by trying .
.. .

-- 
Josh

"I love it when I'm around the country club, and I hear people talking about
the debilitating
effects of a welfare society. At the same time, they leave their kids a
lifetime and beyond
of food stamps. Instead of having a welfare officer, they have a trust officer.
And instead
of food stamps, they have stocks and bonds."

- Warren Buffett
                                                                               
                                             
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