[Buddha-l] A ltter concerning toleration

[Peter D. Junger]

I am afraid that at times Richard can be a little cruel.  He is
away from the list for a week or so and apparently decided before
he left not to continue the practice of filtering out messages from 
Lane when Lane went flaming out of control.  And he even facilitated
Lane's sending a flame to the chairman of his department, which is
hardly likely in any way to damage Richard's position, but does
show how ridiculous Lane can be.

I fear that a more compasionate person than Richard would have 
continued the practice of filtering Lane's messages so as to
prevent Lane from so damaging his own reputation.  I can, however,
understand how Richard gave in to the temptation of allowing Lane
free run of the list.

This is, of course, not the end of Buddha-Hell.  I think that we
should all muster as much compassion as we can for Lane---which
for most of us would involve ignoring his posts---and continuing
discussing matters with some relation to Buddhism as we were doing
before Richard let Lane make such a fool out of himself.

May all beings be happy!

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
 EMAIL: junger at samsara.law.cwru.edu    URL:  http://samsara.law.cwru.edu