[WikiEN-l] Am I wasting my time?

[Erik Moeller]

> I agree... seems like people are proposing banning at the drop of a hat,
> now. I
> think we're getting lazy. So much easier to shoot the bastards than to
> talk to
> them, isn't it? 

Several people have tried to talk to Frank, but he is just blathering
incomprehensibly.

> Isn't banning supposed to be the -extreme-, last resort,
> not
> something you use after three sentences of unintelligible conversation?

If only there were sentences ..

> To draw an analogy, consider a drunk (appropriate because the drunk is
> malicious, but not intentionally so, like people who do damage to articles
> but
> don't realize they're doing it): the drunk is wandering around, crashing
> into
> things. You can a) pick up after him, b) try and sober him up, c) steer
> him out
> the door, d) kill him. I think it's unreasonable to say, "Let's let him
> wander
> around for a while, and if he continues to be a drunk, let's kill him."

Terrible analogy. Nobody has advocated banning Frank if he continues doing
what he's doing now. Besides, comparing banning to killing is preposterous.

Of course Cunctator gets a Pavlovian reaction as soon as someone merely
mentions the word "banning" ..

Regards,

Erik

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