The majority of the contributors to this board are currently suffering through a difficult ordeal. With luck it will only be temporary and hopefully it will also be shortlived.
As we work out way through hard times it is a good idea to try to learn from the experiences. If learning from bad times helps us to avoid them in the future, then we can turn even pitfalls into strengths.
How does the saying go? Good judgement comes from experience, unfortunately, experience comes from bad judgement.
In order to learn from our experiences it is imperative that we understand them thoroughly. Gaining such an understanding requires the assimilation of all of the viewpoints and understanding available regarding the experience, and carefully winnowing out the essential thread from each one and weaving those threads into a coherent tapestry. To continue the analogy, it requires both warp and woof threads for a fabric to be complete.
It is therefore necessary to include all of those viewpoints into the discussion. The arbitrary elimination of voices based on emotional criteria is couterproductive to the understanding of the experience. If we do not learn from history we are doomed to repeat it.
The suspension of members from this board based solely on their failure to toe the line, will never be an acceptable practice if we are all to benefit from the collective wisdome available here.
best regards,
frog
