[Buddha-l] A ltter concerning toleration

[Steven Lane]

 Apparently you feel anything on this list can hurt my reputation. All the
true scholars of Buddhism left this list long ago. What's left are only
ageing leftwing morons who can't get their heads out of the 60's or their
own asses. It perfectly within my right to forward all of Hayes posts to
whomever I feel. Do you deny me that freedom.

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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Peter D. Junger
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:16 AM
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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!

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