[Digestion] larger context/mass exodus

David david at h4c.org
Thu Jan 20 16:54:07 CST 2011


Ruben,

On 1/20/2011 12:40 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Randy Mott <randymott at ceeres.eu 
> <mailto:randymott at ceeres.eu>> wrote:
>
>     This political stuff is about to cause a mass exodus of the list.
>
>
> How do you know this?
> I'm fairly new here, so don't have a long term view of permissible 
> content rules for this forum, but my instinct tells me that there is 
> room for (some) discussion of energy consumption, energy economics, 
> energy demand, etc. without running for the hills.

It's not the subject matter that is the problem, if I might venture an 
opinion. It's the lack of careful thought, the dearth of courtesy, the 
polarized and stubborn holding to positions, the inflammatory 
statements, and the like. The highest purpose of discussions such as 
take place in fora such as this is to be changed by the conversation, 
to learn, to grow in understanding. That does not happen where people 
are not listening to one another, and there is limited evidence in the 
latter portion of the exchange that the condition has been met.



d.
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