Re: Resignation of Suresh Ramasubramanian and Udhay Shankar from the india-gii moderator role

Using your own analogy, suppose he beats his wife at home, but is an exemplary employee at work (a brilliant programmer or something of the sort, say).

Or perhaps he’s a suave gentleman when he goes to his club for a drink and a round of golf, and a brilliant quizzer if he’s on a quiz team.

If you knew he beat his wife at home, you may want to avoid him socially but have little or no excuse to avoid or bar him professionally.  Or possibly not.

This is an interesting case here.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/firing-of-shawn-simoes-for-off-duty-fhritp-video-reflects-employment-trend-1.3071919 <http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/firing-of-shawn-simoes-for-off-duty-fhritp-video-reflects-employment-trend-1.3071919>

I understand Arun’s sterling background in free speech and his concerns that it should not be suppressed at any costs, and that a radical voice in the wilderness is a useful thing to have.

I can even respect that.  

However, and I hope Arun’s moderation efforts that he described will resolve this, a clear line must be drawn between expressing - even strongly expressing - a minority point of view, versus carrying out vicious personal attacks on those who hold opposite views.

After Arun’s explanatory note and his proposal to moderate Sarbajit, I consider the matter closed for now.

—srs


> On 18-May-2015, at 9:01 pm, Ratnendra Pandey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Take an example. There is a member who beats his wife every evening. Should this be enough reason to send the member out of this list.
> This can be argued from the both sides.  Is it that a bad guy will be bad guy everywhere?  Or, bad at one occasion or instance does not make the person always bad?

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