[Foundation-l] Board statement of responsibility

[Mike Godwin]

Thomas Dalton writes:

>  If you consider all (personal) criticism to be an
> attack, then clearly you're going to have a problem with it.

It's not really a matter of what I consider to be a personal criticism  
or a personal attack. I think it's really a matter of what the Board  
members judge to be a personal criticism or attack, and they are the  
ones who ultimately will interpret this provision.  That said, I think  
it is entirely possible to criticize someone's actions without  
attacking their character (for example). The notion that the only way  
to express disagreement with someone is to criticize them personally  
seems to me to be dead certain to lead to personal animosity.

> (really, I struggle to see how you can
> criticise anything other than a person or group of people -
> criticising what they do, rather than them, is just semantics).

This doesn't strike me as a struggle, and I disagree that this is just  
semantics.  I certainly know how to express disagreement without  
personally criticizing someone, and I think this posting of mine  
actually stands as a demonstration of how to do this.


--Mike