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Originally posted by unionist:
[b]Phrillie doesn't feel comfortable having her views challenged.[/b]
That's right -- that's a failing of mine. Disagreement feels like attack. You're not the first to point this out to me.
I wanted to talk back to the points that you raised:
[b][/quote]- Don't support sex education in Grades 1, 2, 3.[/quote][/b]
Yes, I feel ages 6, 7 and 8 are too young for sex education.
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- [b]ETA[/b] On the right to choose: "Is it okay to kill a baby that's 3 hours old? What if the umbilical is still attached -- does that make it okay? If not, why not?"[/b]
Yes, I have serious trouble with "late-term" abortions. I have trouble with abortion in general and it's all because of an exquisitely worded letter to the editor to Harper's (or possibly the Atlantic) that I read recently.
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[b]Always "questions".[/b]
Yeah, you're right there. It's wimpy of me. Truth be told, it's because I'm afraid of you guys.
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[b]Also: "I know I don't belong in the feminist forum because I believe a fetus has some rights too, although less than a pregnant woman's. Even so, does anybody at all see abortion as a form of violence?"[/b]
Yes, and nobody answered me (that I know of). I am a feminist, in that I see gender power imbalance integral to all of our lives. I don't happen to think abortion is a good thing for women. With that in mind, I should stay out of the feminist forum. I guess, right?
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[b]- Quotes a neo-fascist blog and asks (always a question!) whether babble is state-funded?
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Now that's unfair. As I already stated, I'm a Luddite. When I lot on to babble, I google rabble.ca space babble. One time that I did so, the blazing cat fur website was visible at #4 or #5. I asked about it on babble. Is it true, I said. Babble set me straight.
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[b]- Speaking of which, she opens a thread cautioning babblers about not paying too much tax in the event of death.[/b]
Yes, I did. No defence to that, I guess.
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[b]- Self-described "upper-class family" which has married into "a variety" of social classes.[/b][/quote}Yes, dad's a retired professor, mom's a failed academic/school teacher. They have shitloads of cash and a nice house. I think that makes them "upper class." The thread that came up in, I believe, was the "bimbo trophy wife" one, I believe, and I was saying there was no such thing.
[quote][b]- Moved out of the city to get away from crime and low quality schools and dedicate herself to raising kids.[/b]
Yep, that one's right.
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[b]- Is studying criminology and continues to believe that there is a genetic link to violent behaviour.[/b]
Nope. Am studying criminology and reading about all aspects of violent behaviour. I have no background in the subject and am just reading my textbook. Based on what I've read so far, I don't believe there's a genetic link.
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[b]- News story that mentions that a school with problems of violence is near an Aboriginal reserve "doesn't set off alarm bells" for her.[/b]
That's right. The fact that the school was located to the Aboriginal reserve seemed to be a non-issue, just like, as I believe said, if the school had been located next to a coal mine. As I also said at the time, I am on the lookout all the time for prejudice, and that particular story didn't set off alarm bells for me.
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[b]- She is a self-described "entrepeneur" who believes that ownership and control of business creates value in itself, by contrast with "lower-level workers" who are "easily replaced".[/b]
I'm an ex-entrepeneur, actually. And my point in that thread was that businesspeople aren't automatically evil.
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[b]- She defends her class - saying that we have all known "ethical businesspeople" and "slacker workers". Perhaps so - but what is the point here?[/b]
I don't have a "class." I'm neither an ethical business person nor a slacker worker. The point is that don't tar, as Fidel appears to, all people with the same brush.
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[b]I personally thought all of Phrillie's views were worth discussing and debating.[/b]
If that's true, unionist, I must say, you have a frightening way of showing it.
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[b]She, however, is a sensitive soul who just likes to put "questions" out there. She copes well with agreement, but not with criticism and challenge.[/b]
Again. this is fair criticism. If I hang around, I will try to do better about making statements and not asking questions.
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[b]I do hope she stays.[/b]
Hmm.
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[b]But if (as mentioned before) she accepts only agreement, there must be other boards out there which mirror the kind of world outlook expressed in the points listed above ....[/b]
No, I don't want "only agreement." But I do want FAIR discusssion. If I say "the crime rate is higher for blacks than it is for whites," I want the response to be "Oh, yeah, why do you think that?" rather than "You're a Nazi."