(06-08-2014 07:55 PM)fabioazevedo Oh Wrote: Vrem, I have been an admirer of your answers. but you was poor in their response this time.
forgive me.
I apologize ... I just thought it was unkind to jump on Hathor like that ... but i see it really does hurt people's feelings, talking of 3rd-world countries as if people who lived there were unprincipled, just by definition. I promise I won't use that term except to quote others. Something I love about SL is getting to be friends with people from many countries, speaking many languages. Lol I think that, if you are representing the 3rd world vultures, you're pretty good proof that they get their kitties in thoroughly legitimate ways!! And what I meant about tolerance / kindness in the TOS ... is that yes tolerance (which I take to mean -- acceptance, and even celebration of the many cultures and ways of life represented in SL's worldwide community) is unconditionally required! Kindness is not required and therefore is sadly missing at times.
A famous logical fallacy, and now I can't remember the name of it, but it has to do with lumping people together in groups, ridiculously, and drawing conclusions about them:
*Rice is a school for great poets.
*Joe went to Rice.
*Therefore, Joe is a great poet.
you could make a similar wacky logic thing with the vulture concept.
(06-09-2014 01:54 AM)anna acanthus Wrote: Whatever the intentions behind Hathor's remark it's read on face value and on face value it's highly inflammatory so of course it's offensive to anyone who cares about the human condition in general.
I can say i know Dimpz pretty well by now and anyone else who does will also know that any "holier than thou' attitude has absolutely no place in her personality, quite the opposite in fact.
I'm sorry, I don't know Dimpz very well, but unlike you I don't have a whole history of her remembered kindness or tolerance, to fall back on. A bit the contrary in fact, in our few encounters. I didn't think Hathor meant to be racist, is all. But now I do see that her comment hit a nasty nerve. Maybe if you knew Hathor pretty well you would be equally sympathetic and willing to give the benefit of the doubt. I don't know either very well.
The 9T for 100L "bargain"
