Stephen Bain wrote:
On 7/15/06, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
I don't even see what's so undignified
about this particular incident
that anyone would argue it on that basis in the first place. Everyone
does boneheaded things from time to time.
This particular incident may only be embarrassing; what is undignified
is AP's reportage using a full name. What would likewise be
undignified would be the immortalisation of this in a biography,
forever linking this person's name with this event and this event
alone (there is no other biographical information available), as if
that was the sum total of their life.
I'm not sure what the distinction between "embarrassing" and
"undignified" is, here. And I already addressed the lack of other
information separately, I would already have supported deletion on that
basis alone. I was assuming that there was something more to the
incident for the sake of argument so that the matter of "human dignity"
could actually be addressed.
This incident is really a bad example for discussing the subject we're
supposedly discussing, I wish Jimbo had used one that wasn't so
obviously deletable for unrelated reasons.