Oh PLEASE!
Pardon a dispassionate view from the antipodes, but would you guys please
get a life?
You are expecting Jerry to behave rationally after he has received an
emotionally very disturbing email, by accident.
As it happens, I agree that the way he put that news about on OPE-L could
be interpreted as "entrapment"--but only by also ignoring how emotionally
disturbing it would have been to receive such a message, and then expecting
rationalist standards of behaviour from someone whose mind is in turmoil at
the time.
Every actor in this development has been highly emotional and
self-righteous, and I think we have probably all experienced the danger of
email (and for that matter, voice) when you can say something in the heat
of the moment and then regret it later.
I'll make a final plea for a rationalist standard after the heat of the
moment has died down. Does Marxism exist to give us novel ways to be
petulant, or does it exist as a means to analyse society? If the latter,
then get over this set of emotional outbursts.
Steve
At 04:32 AM 16/03/2002 Saturday, you wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, gerald_a_levy wrote:
>
> > 1) re Simon's [6749]: we can not have a discussion
> > here about the Kliman/RRPE suit for reasons stated
> > by Paul Z in [6600] and by former listmember Patrick
> > M in [6604].
>
>My own 'Unsubscribe' posting is NOT AT ALL conditioned by the Kliman/RRPE
>issue. It is conditioned by 'enticement' and 'entrapment' by the list
>manager.
>
>I do not take a stand one way or another on Kliman/RRPE. I will, however,
>direct listmembers to my posting OPE-L:6600 DEFENDING Terry McDonough
>against any thought that he could be a liar when he noted a 'threat'
>against a RRPE board member (copy below).
>
>On OPE-L, there should be rules of behavior which a list manager must
>apply equally to ALL, even those with whom he/she disagree. Enticement
>and entrapment are not permissable behavior.
>
>Simon, I don't think you need the information you request. In fact, the
>Kliman/RRPE issue is a diversionary attempt to AVOID the managerial
>problem. Think what you would do in a 'socialist' society claiming to be
>Marxist when your manager engages in enticement and entrapment. Perhaps a
>strike would be an appropriate response (yes, even in 'socialism'). I
>suggest starting with Jerry's #6672, then Alejandro's #6720 and my #6738.
>
>Rakesh and Mike, thanks for your appreciation of my research work.
>
>Paul Z.
>
>P.S. to Jerry, I acknowledge receipt of your private message to me
>yesterday connected to the entrapment issue. Please make it public, or
>find a 'mediator' (other than myself).
>
>
>
> ***************
>
>Relevant portion of my OPE-L:6600, 2/15/02, (Terry's message itself was
>forwarded to the list at OPE-L:6582).
>
>"...For myself and after the 11 emails of today, I say that Terry
>McDonough is a good and long-term friend, is not a liar, and is unlikely
>to put himself on this list without reasons he felt to be justified."
>
>"So, we if want to solve this problem on either side of the fence, we
>should look elsewhere.
>
>"Paul"
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