Should we stop using certain words?

[john9blue]

i don't think that we should necessarily stay within the parameters, because those parameters might not include everything that is morally right.

[The Voice]

The phrase 'dead end job' should be changed to 'no outlet job'

[oVo]

The phrase 'dead end job' should be changed to 'no outlet job'

Does that make getting fired from such a position a cul de sac.

It's a game site with a forum John, and you have moral objections
to the rules or TOS here?

Yeah BBS, I suppose people "could" easily stay within the established
parameters, but as humans there's a child residing in all of us that
needs to push it... and has that urge to cross the line.

[BigBallinStalin]

The phrase 'dead end job' should be changed to 'no outlet job'

Does that make getting fired from such a position a cul de sac.

It's a game site with a forum John, and you have moral objections
to the rules or TOS here?

Yeah BBS, I suppose people "could" easily stay within the established
parameters, but as humans there's a child residing in all of us that
needs to push it... and has that urge to cross the line.

It's not childish to find a better alignment between one's moral views and the organization's. If anything, that's how positive change occurs. Otherwise, anyone who has done so, would be "childish" like.. Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, George Washington, and many more who aren't as famous.

Anyway, this argument about "can" and "should" got inane (yeah, I read your post, AoG, and it was a good post). There are no absolute answers because at times people/certain individuals should follow the organization's rules and at other times should not follow those rules. In similar circumstances, we/some of us can, and then again we/some of us can't.

That's not a position which shakes gently with "either-or" reasoning, but it's superior---(perhaps more superior to offender profiling).

[AAFitz]

i don't think that we should necessarily stay within the parameters, because those parameters might not include everything that is morally right.

Are you saying there is a moral imperative to breaking the parameters of CC?

If you mean in general, of course you are right, though there is always a subjective view of morality....but, I would like see an example of morality forcing one to break the guidelines on this forum....

[BigBallinStalin]

i don't think that we should necessarily stay within the parameters, because those parameters might not include everything that is morally right.

Are you saying there is a moral imperative to breaking the parameters of CC?

If you mean in general, of course you are right, though there is always a subjective view of morality....but, I would like see an example of morality forcing one to break the guidelines on this forum....

"Forcing" is too vague, so I'll modify the underlined to this: One's morality will oblige them to behave in a number of manners which would conflict with the forum guidelines:


Defending one's "cyber honor" by reciprocating with a belligerent tone.

Cursing out mods for a wrong action on their part--albeit they may have been "following orders."

If humor is tied with morality/living the good life, then trolling--WHICH IS FORBIDDEN, but not really--is actually acceptable in OT but unacceptable according to the forum guidelines. It depends on the style.


etc., etc.