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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8643405" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>This feel like the zero tolerance policies at schools. I remember a story from a decade ago about 2nd graders pretending their pencils were gun and making shooting noises at each other and getting suspended for multiple days. (Link below.)</p><p></p><p>Mercedes Lackey was in the process of praising Delaney. <em>We have a context.</em> We know as much as it's possible for another person to know the intent of another that it was not being used in a negative way. The term was during the authors life an acceptable term. Your stance seems that we must hard line punish even when there is no intent, no harm to the recipient (Delaney did not take it as a slur), for something that was once acceptable and is now somewhat borderline, to a punitive level of punishment - not just removed from that event but from all panels, ejected from the convention, and publicly shamed via social media.</p><p></p><p>Sorry, zero tolerance rules aren't good. When you punish the innocent as well as the guilty because your criteria are poor, you are doing a bad job.</p><p></p><p>"It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer". --Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Vaughn, 1785</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/2nd-grade-boys-suspended-for-pretending-pencils-are-guns/2060662/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8643405, member: 20564"] This feel like the zero tolerance policies at schools. I remember a story from a decade ago about 2nd graders pretending their pencils were gun and making shooting noises at each other and getting suspended for multiple days. (Link below.) Mercedes Lackey was in the process of praising Delaney. [I]We have a context.[/I] We know as much as it's possible for another person to know the intent of another that it was not being used in a negative way. The term was during the authors life an acceptable term. Your stance seems that we must hard line punish even when there is no intent, no harm to the recipient (Delaney did not take it as a slur), for something that was once acceptable and is now somewhat borderline, to a punitive level of punishment - not just removed from that event but from all panels, ejected from the convention, and publicly shamed via social media. Sorry, zero tolerance rules aren't good. When you punish the innocent as well as the guilty because your criteria are poor, you are doing a bad job. "It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer". --Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Vaughn, 1785 [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/2nd-grade-boys-suspended-for-pretending-pencils-are-guns/2060662/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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