[Vision2020] I think that's just about enough.

[Carl Westberg]

Amen, Melynda.  All of us who've been around long enough and have loved ones 
have first hand experience with mental illness.  I have no problem 
whatsoever publicly battling someone who has knowingly, willingly, and 
forcefully thrust himself/herself onto the public stage.  Scrutiny, 
including harsh scrutiny, comes with the territory when one has done so.  
But, as Melynda noted, there are suffering, and innocent, people involved 
here.  How about those Mariners?                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                          
Carl Westberg Jr.

>From: "Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey at msn.com>
>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] I think that's just about enough.
>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:11:48 -0800
>
>I'd like to propose an immediate moratorium on the topic of anybody's 
>divorce, ex-spouse, mental or physical disability, or family sorrows and 
>tragedies.  All of us lose when public discourse, particularly in this 
>electronic form which makes intemperance and hostility so easy and 
>inconsequential, goes down this road.  There are suffering people attached 
>to the names and stories being bandied about here.
>
>Of course, I don't have any power to enforce such a proposal, but I'm 
>making an earnest plea.  I believe that the recent rash of anonymous 
>postings contributes to a sense that we can say whatever we like about 
>people--taunt them, vilify them, excoriate them--without any personal 
>consequence.  It's a kind of poison pen letter, but with the extra thrill 
>of many spectators.
>
>We *can* have conversation here that is both civil and heated, intense and 
>respectful.  But we've got to work at it.  And a reasonable first step, it 
>seems to me, is to sign our names to our posts and to limit our 
>conversation to matters of public interest.
>
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