Re: why stay around

["Anthony J. Rzepela" <rzepelaa>]

Marion Liles wrote:

> Maybe many of us feel we have something to defend or protect here on the
> list from the mean invader Ed.

Depersonalize it, and it's true. Any list has to protect
itself from someone with a destructive agenda even when the
agenda is not intentional, and just a result of childish 
behavior. 

> I think that Bolt and Fiona have done a tremendous amount of work around
> here  - please let's don't let it fall apart because someone like Ed
> pisses us off or we feel personally attacked.  Ed should be able to have
> his say and others have their's with reacting negatively.

What's this about "reacting negatively"? How about 
the instigator's responsibility? 

> Whether
> everything he says is correct or not however is a matter of debate. 
> I've become so pissed at much of what he says that it's all I can do to
> not yell at him.  But then again he makes me think about what he says
> and I like some of it.  That's sounds contradictory but there it is.  If
> someone does not like Ed then why not just leave him alone and maybe he
> can begin to like us and then we could all get along.

See, I don't buy this. Every pro-Ed "suggestion" for 
management of this issue has reminded me of a 
super-passive-aggresssive, dysfunctional family gathering 
where everyone who is not a brat resigns to the fact that 
they have to cave in to the brat if they don't want to 
give grandma a heart attack. 

Then the brat screams like a stuck pig, and it's "Would you 
stop it? What's wrong with you?", directed at whoever didn't
just hand over on a silver platter whatever it was the brat 
wanted.

Voila! Then magically it's the respondent's fault there's no peace. 

>  Hey, lets be
> friends everyone.  I feel like a bit of a family here.

Ironic, non?