[Vision2020] When is it and when is it not my business?

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

Carl wrote:
"I'd personally call it no one else's business."

And, Sunil wrote:
"You've been on this for a couple of weeks now,
and it's still not your business, not my business, and
not the business of anyone on V2020 except Nick,
and perhaps his friend, should she exist and should
she be on this listserve."


And, Saundra wrote:
"As usual, Sunil & Carl are spot on, but for the rest
of us, let heirdog's post serve as a reminder that
Jealousy, the Green-Eyed Monster, really is incredibly
ugly."


I am very glad that you all are trying to define morality here on Blind 
2020 but what standard shall we use to say what is and isn't some one 
else's business? We all want to participate in the standard defining 
exercise and we need to be all inclusive so that no one is left out.

For the longest time I have been posting statements that some find 
offensive and some find funny. It seems from this vast difference of 
opinion that there is no moral standard by which we can judge one and 
other's comments. Saundra calls me jealous and ugly. How does one make 
an absolute statement such as thiat?

I have read that some posters have "crossed the line" when it comes to 
saying things. By what unwritten law or code of conduct do we judge 
where the line is? And who is the policeman of "line crossing"? Is it 
J. Ford with her online dictionary? Is it Wayne Fox and his 
multicolored Bible Google? Or is it Keely Mix with her cutting wit and 
"I am innocent but you are guilty" way of putting things.

Tom-Tom says, by his posts and his blog, that it is OK to re-publish 
the addresses of those he thinks are breaking a zoning code. Isn't what 
they do in the privacy of their own home only "their business"? What 
gives him the "right" to do this? Has he crossed the mystic "line"?

What gives J. " :] " Ford the OK to publish false or misleading 
information about a local developer, with the intent to do public harm 
to someone from Christ Church? But when someone makes an embarrassing 
statement about an ex husband who resides in the state pen, this has 
crossed the mystic "line"!

Maybe it's time to shut this site down. Maybe it's time to do what 
someone, I respect, said, ..."Live and let live". Is this the standard 
we should follow?

When Dale pointed out the incongruity of Keely's request, in light of 
all of the accusations by Rose and Co. with respect to having people 
live in their house, I thought I would bring up Nick Gier's living 
situation - again. Is he paying any of the bills there? Wouldn't that 
make him a "boarder" by the code? He is not a family member.

It seems, by the comments back to me, that THIS is none of my business! 
Why, he is an important public school figure with a lot on his plate 
(he told us so)! Why one set of standards for some and not for others? 
Where is the out cry "For the Love of the Code?"

Is all of this a picture of "white men of privilege" being overcome and 
subdued by those who feel down trodden? Or is it as Mrs. Lund said, "  
a reminder that Jealousy, the Green-Eyed Monster, really is incredibly 
ugly..."?

lemeno, Doug!




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