mvh Björn wrote ...
I like many other people are not comfortable in arguing and such an abstract level and therefore you get misunderstood. It would have been better if you had started the discussion at the level of abstractness you intended because the shifts from particularity to generality is confusing me.
First, I appreciate your saying that I have raised people's awareness of the issues. As to your suggestion: I can't criticize it, but I do not think I know how to do that. I encourage you, if not now then sometime, to try to re-start the discussion at what you think is a reasonable or constructive level of abstractness. I don't mean to tell you what to do, but from your comments it seems to me that you are interested in this issue, and have something to say. Maybe where I went wrong, you can go right.
Steve
Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701