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Author Topic:   Legal Death, Legal Life
Adminnemooseus
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Message 2 of 40 (449163)
01-16-2008 10:33 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by RAZD
01-16-2008 10:14 PM


Too much to be a topic - AM says "no go"
This is from a personal essay on the ethics, cultural concerns and morality on the boundaries of human life, including the implications for abortion and stem cell research.
Forum guideline 3:
When introducing a new topic, please keep the message narrowly focused. Do not include more than a few points.
Not that it's stopped some of your other "monsters", but I think this is way to much to fit the guidelines of what should be a new topic.
I guess we could file this in the "Coffee House" as a closed reference topic. But it does not seem proper to promote it to open debate.
I think we need much more specific focus.
Opinions of other admins?
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Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Add link to forum rules page.

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Message 6 of 40 (450644)
01-22-2008 11:47 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by RAZD
01-19-2008 10:00 PM


Looking at "The Big Picture" vs "A Workable Debate Topic"
While much is to be said for looking at "the big picture", in the context of a debate forum it does not work well to debate said "big picture". That is why we try to get "the big picture" broken down into a number of "small pictures", which can (maybe) function as workable debate topic.
This situation/problem might actually make for a topic in itself. Such as "How does one debate "the big picture""? I guess such would go into the Suggestions and Questions forum. If you wish, go for it.
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It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source

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