The better-dead list

[thatcrazycajun]

madfilkentist has banned me from posting comments to his journal on the grounds that he thinks I wish him dead. This is abso-frelling-lutely untrue and an unfair inference from my comment that I did wish California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) dead for his asinine policies with regard to his gay/lesbian constituents, as noted in MF's journal (whether "Ahh-nuld" is acting out of sincere belief or simply pandering to his party's conservative base makes no nevermind to me). If I want someone to disappear because they are doing something that hurts people I am one of/care about, it is a wish only unto that specific person, and my wishes toward anyone else cannot and should not be inferred from it.

If you think I'm wrong in saying this, feel free to post (including you, MF). I hereby publicly apologize to MF for giving the wrong impression, and hope my friend will rescind this ban, but it's his LJ and he can make the rules. Same applies to me and this one...but I will not return a ban for a ban. I will acknowledge that perhaps mine was an extreme reaction, but I am heartily sick and tired of people trying to legislate (their idiotic notions of) morality on me and mine, at all levels of government.

And in regard to the specific policy under discussion, I firmly believe that the teacher is the only one who ought to have any veto power over what is said in the classroom -- not the school board, not the government, not the students and certainly not any of the kids' parents. If any parents object to what their child hears there, it's their business to respond at home with their own views on the matter, not to try and censor everyone else's kids from hearing it. (The only exceptions to this I can think of are advocating violent crime or child molestation, and even then I would argue for a full investigation and due process before shutting/stringing the teacher up.) Not that I expect this will ever be the case in reality; guess I should resign myself to the eternal rule of Lazarus Long's that teaching kids the bald truth is a capital offense in any society.

"The trouble with truth is that it almost always destroys someone's cherished falsehood." -- Lazarus Long, as told to R. A. Heinlein

Comments

Only Human

[(Anonymous)]

I would think that the folks reading your comments on LJ would (de-facto) take your comments as being your opinion only. DUH That is what this community is all about, people sharing ideas, opinions, perspectives. If one is going to take someone else's opninion as a personal threat or attack, one needs to limit his/her circle of those whose opinions are welcome.
Therefore, TCC, take it not to heart that you have been 'banned' (read: censored) out of that person's LJ. That person is not yet evolved enough to consider more than his own POV. You are trancendant!

OTOH, you may want to heed the previous advice, and consider the feelings of those more sensitive than ourselves. Don't want to overwhelm the poor dears, you know.

Peace,
Baggy