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Thread #44980   Message #663196
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
05-Mar-02 - 02:40 PM
Thread Name: After Pearl's murder: I Am A Jew
Subject: RE: After Pearl's murder: I Am A Jew
Could I suggest that there is already enough fighting about this, and too many horrible things being done by people on all sides carrying out horrible reprisals against horrible reprisals?

It is possible to carry on discussions about things like this without falling into attacks on other people, or throwing out insults, or posting in a way that is inevitably going to generate counterattacks.

Discussions carried out in a way that tries to understand why people have disagreements about these issues, and identifying what those disagreements are, and where there are things on which there is agreement - they can be useful, because they don't happen too often in the face-to-face world.

But people shouting at each other over the net - that is just part of the problem. It is not any way to try to imagine some kind of solution.