An open warning

[fpb]

To anyone who might feel like defending abominations such as baby-murder and the State murder of the old and sick: be reminded that this blog is my space. I decide what goes in and out; and while I allow all my friends to say what they think or feel, I will not, on principle, leave in any defence of what I regard as crime. If you want to defend crime, do it in your own space and don't bother me; all you will get otherwise is deletion and banning.

Comments

[superversive.livejournal.com]

If you want to blame fpb for a comment I made, go right ahead; it proves that you are a fool. And if you feel a sense of visceral revulsion because you feel insulted, and none at a fully-formed human child having its brains sucked out through a tube and its body flung into a disposal, then I suggest you may need to have a competent neurologist examine the reactions of your viscera.

Tom, that goes too far.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Never judge a person before you have walked a mile in their shoes. You know nothing whatever about eyeliner297; I do, and I know that not only does she have a right to feel strongly in the matter - even if I think she feels wrongly - but that she has reason to feel angry about me in particular. This is not my story to discuss, but let me just say that other people would have de-friended me for one or two things I said on a certain occasion. That she is still speaking to me is more than I could have expected. And whether or not she did actually mistake you for me, she is right that I am responsible for whatever appears on my LJ. That is a principle I enforce. You are a friend and a person I hold in the highest esteem, but I ask you now to withdraw and apologize for the language you saw fit to use to her, or else I will do it for you.

Did you even notice, by the way, that I have already given her quite a firm reply without feeling the need to insult her?

Re: Tom, that goes too far.

[superversive.livejournal.com]

You’re quite right, my language was excessive and inappropriate, and I apologize for it. (And no, I didn’t see your own reply, because eyeliner297’s reply appeared in my email and I responded from there. I was stung and acted in haste, which makes me more culpable, rather than less.)

I still feel that there is a considerable disproportion between feeling visceral revulsion at the actual occurrence of a partial-birth abortion, and feeling it on account of a purely verbal insult. I cannot help suspecting a degree of hyperbole in drawing the equivalency.