tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post1609955996107790878..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: The perils of polarityThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-62056881525344686762009-03-28T16:08:00.000+00:002009-03-28T16:08:00.000+00:00This has been troubling me too; you can find such ...This has been troubling me too; you can find such sentiments almost anywhere online.<BR/><BR/>I was reading a discussion about certain products (and prices) that turned surprisingly aggressive, with claims that Brits should stop whining about the prices they're expected to pay; even a passing comment that seemed to suggest the British P.M. is bad because he's Scottish.<BR/><BR/>Then there are other, smaller discussion boards where some of the membership say that because they've heard such and such a view lots of times, they're tired of it, and will shout at people if they so much as brush close to that subject. They will not accept that other people (including new members) have a right to their opinions.<BR/><BR/>That came to mind when you said people mishandle online debate, saying things in a manner that they probably wouldn't if they were in a room with the people they were talking to. :-) Good post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-84363940373624809472009-03-06T01:54:00.000+00:002009-03-06T01:54:00.000+00:00I hear you, and good point, but sometimes I'm just...I hear you, and good point, but sometimes I'm just too tired, yet too dumb to just say nothing.Diane J Standifordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862850657925658079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-25677584282061332642009-03-04T22:22:00.000+00:002009-03-04T22:22:00.000+00:00Wonderful, in NZ at the moment we have a massive e...Wonderful, in NZ at the moment we have a massive example in a debate on why Accident compensation has balloned out in costs,http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/5368473/labour-warns-acc-changes/ <BR/><BR/><BR/>Labour is warning that people will be forced to take out private accident insurance if the Government slashes ACC cover.<BR/><BR/>ACC Minister Nick Smith yesterday revealed the corporation's soaring costs and liabilities, saying they would lead to unacceptably high levies unless "significant changes" were made.<BR/><BR/>Labour's ACC spokesman David Parker said last night "fundamental safeguards" were in jeopardy.<BR/><BR/>"New Zealanders need to know which entitlements and services they will now have to pay for out of their own pockets," he said.<BR/><BR/>"While some New Zealanders can afford private accident insurance, many on lower incomes can't."<BR/><BR/>Dr Smith said that under Labour, ACC had stopped acting as an insurer and had become more like a welfare agency. note that most online clients note that they Seldom receive any entitlements and get severely, repeatedly, slapped down as malingerers who deserve to be punished<BR/><BR/> From my brain injured, or not point of view I posted my own polarised tougue in cheek view.<BR/><BR/> As with any anti ACC news one can bet this discussion vanishes fast.<BR/><BR/>Someday someone will realise that ACC Clients or "Stock" are actual Human Beings: Who seldom see any of the vanishing zillionsGone Fishinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601595396241016724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-77038588813796578492009-03-04T17:33:00.000+00:002009-03-04T17:33:00.000+00:00One of the problems with such reviews is that peop...One of the problems with such reviews is that people don't define the criteria by which they are judging the work--doing so allows others to determine whether what they value in a good movie is the same as the reviewer's and gives the review more utility.<BR/><BR/>I've always thought groupthink is really dangerous, especially when it denigrates into suggested violence. It makes me understand how easily people fall into acts of violence or going along with others to harm someone else because of peer pressure (even adults). Often the tone gets more and more hysterical about people who believe differently until someone pops up and says, "I've got red socks and my life seems to be okay."FridaWriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03321658097813377806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-34037127477334973022009-03-04T12:33:00.000+00:002009-03-04T12:33:00.000+00:00You make a number of salient and interesting point...You make a number of salient and interesting points - particularly where you reference me of course* -although I curse myself for not referencing the polarising effect of groupthink before. Damn you!<BR/><BR/>And you're right about reviews - it's of little benefit for me to hear that "I wholeheartedly endorse this product or service" a la Krusty, than to hear "this product or service is pants". What a review ought to do is to provide you with the information about the product or service which you can then use to make up your own mind.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and you're wrong about the sock thing. The problem is not the colour of socks, but heretics who wear them with sandals. Burn them!<BR/><BR/>* this was a joke, for anyone thinking that I really am insufferably smug and arrogant. I may be smug and arrogant, but not <EM>quite</EM> that much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com