The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19817   Message #204043
Posted By: Amos
30-Mar-00 - 02:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: compassion or honesty
Subject: RE: BS: compassion or honesty
Garg/TTCM:

You exemplify the point I was making;

for example, there is nothing honest about your posts being couched in the first person plural, and it makes your message more obscure and more discomfiting because one has to adjust for the fact that for whatever reason, you are a stranger to the honesty of saying "I think....".

Again, there is nothing honest about saying that you represent a silent majority, an un-named, invisible collectivity flung up to add some sort of spooky weight to a viewpoint you do not have the courage to claim plainly in the first place.

Again, there is nothing honest about stating an extremely negative opinion in unspecified terms, merely as an antagonistic and mean opinionated conclusion -- such as "you suck" or "why don't you hop out", which provides no grounds for understanding and no path for improvement, and makes your personal rancor impossible to understand and, evidently, impossible to resolve.

There is nothing honest about hiding facts ("I disagree with your statement that...") behind these broad-brush, non-specific, negative generalizations.

Again, there is nothing honest about attributing motivations to the mysterious alleged "majority" which you style yourself as representing, such as "would not put publicly in print..." implying even more negativity and unspoken confusion than you yourself have, and implying it is held by many when in fact it is here being voiced by one -- you.

So while you have engaged in uninhibited and uncensored slander, I would hardly dignify it with the name candor, and would put it in quite a different category than honesty, in my humble opinion. I hope I have named clearly above the reasons I think this.