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Originally Posted by zeek
It strikes me as paternalistic to decide that this is not a right forum for Harold's psychological needs without consulting him on the matter.
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It strikes me as naive to suggest that the kind of thing that I am suggesting
may be the issue can simply be "hashed out" in public (as someone essentially else put it). Are you ready to openly discuss some of your deepest personal issues and hang-ups in this open forum and with the entirety of the membership? I doubt it.
And you are extremely presumptive (and wrong) to say that I am trying to get Harold off the forum in any way I can. Far from it. From the standpoint of the forum, I would like to see the lucid, coherent Harold regularly participating. Even some of the odd things he has said in the past are welcome because they were at least related enough to warrant consideration.
I think I see the outgrowth of something going on inside these recent comments that suggests something that is not going to be helped by the open display of the problems to a bunch of people, some of whom seem to revel in snippy comments about almost anything.
And your response makes me wonder if you really read and understood what I said, or just want to make your own contrary points. Just what Harold needs right now (not). You can complain that I am presumptive about how it might should be. But at least I have
his interests in mind. It would seem that you are not thinking about his interests, but your own.