XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/23/2016 5:02 AM, Wilson wrote:   
      
   > so many times in the last few years I've seen certain words labeled   
   > harmful and hateful and toxic when they certainly did not seem that way   
   > to me.  So there is room for individual interpretation.   
   >   
   > My personal experience has been that most of the time such labels are   
   > used as a gambit to mentally and emotionally maneuver people into a   
   > place where they can be more easily manipulated.   
      
   If some people can be mentally and emotionally maneuvered   
   into a place where they can be more easily manipulated,   
   then they are quite susceptible in the first place.   
   Mental and emotional lapdogs or doormats, even if they   
   act biggies and meanies.   
      
   On these boards, only mere words on the screen are used   
   (I am not talking about people who charge in unasked to   
   dump hostile missives into others' private e-mail boxes),   
   and everything is free and everything is voluntary.   
      
   If the harmful and toxic words are harmful and toxic to   
   their authors, it is also free and voluntary, like when   
   you walk into a bar and the barista asks you what your   
   poison is.   
      
   However, when you use people's proclamations in their   
   own self-stated words and turn them against them, as a   
   mirror to them, to check whether they can live up to   
   them, you are not violating anybody's norm and standard,   
   but only apply people's self-declared norm and standard   
   back to them. There is nothing immoral or illegal in   
   such mirroring.   
      
   Of course, people may make any proclamation, and then   
   add disclaimers to the effect that, say, they are only   
   made for intellectual curiosity, but not for personal   
   attainment, then they are free of responsibility for   
   getting tested on them.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)