Re: La Globalisation, Global Economy, La Globalización, Global sparsamhet, Weltwitenwirtschaft?.........................

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> joris

                    My apologies if I
                    did get you wrong ...

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I guess I understood that what I, personally, thought would be the
most reasonable reply. I still hope this thread will not grow into a
flame war about Bin Laden ...

There's obviously a difference between "globalization causes problems"
and "America, thou shalt suffer ...". I obviously have to respect the
former, even if I think it is a rather shortsighted opinion. If I have
to respect the other one ... well, I do not think so, but this is
something I do not want to discuss in an ascii newsgroup.

My point is: there is indeed a difference between agreeing to a
opinion and respecting it. But there is a difference between a wrong
opinion and an opinion that thousands of people shall die. Indeed I
have to respect most opinions (for certain values of "respect" ...) as
possible, if wrong, opinions. But I do not have to respect every
opinion. If -- for example -- someone decides to post Neo-Nazi paroles
to this NG, I would only post a few insults in reply and add an entry
to my kill file. No respect for that!

But this was not the case. Someone posted an ascii graphic to this NG
against globalization. I may think this is shortsighted or plain
wrong, but I may not insult the person.

To a simply wrong (or shortsighted) opinion I may reply:



     ))),,    Excuse me. May I tell you
   ' ` ///    that you are plain wrong
   . .  /     with this opinion? It's
  <     )     perfectly false, indeed.
   \_- |  _/
    |__/
          \_ My reasons for this statement
             are as follows ...



But not:



  Fuck ye,              You have no right to live.
  stupid moron.
                          /
            \_   /////  _/      We simply should shoot
Eat shit,       /  ///          folks like you down.
bastard.       = =  /    ___/
        \__   <     )
               \_==|   \
                |__/    \_ You are worse than Hitler.




Please note that the following is also *not* a way to respect a
different opinion:

                     Everyone has
                     his/her own
 So, you think       opinions.
 humans are fishes?     |
                                I do not think so, but
             \_      ))),,  __/ maybe we are both right, eh?
That's              /  ///
interesting. __    x x  /  __  Personally I believe that
                  <     )      the moon is green cheese.
  Such a nice      \_> |
  opinion.   __/    |__/   \_ Do you like my opinion, too?
                              It's nice, eh?


To respect a different opinion is to take it seriously as a statement
about "how things are" or "how things should be". That is: to respect
it is to tell if you think it's wrong and to give *reasons, why* you
think it's wrong.

Therefore I will not respect a Nazi opinion, because I will *never*
join an argument whether it's o.K. to kill millions of people. To give
reasons _for_ an opinion means to admit that you *could* be wrong. And
to give reasons *against* an opinion means to admit that the other one
*could* be right. I will never admit anything like that when it comes
to fascism. Beyond a certain point dialogue is impossible.

But I can not disrespect every opinion that I think is wrong. If I
tried, it would be a bit too much, because there is precisely one
person in the world who always has the right opinions:


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[But your mileage may vary.]

    -- utis

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