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Open Discussion of RPS Stories in Light of Heath's Death
Scott6373:
Just throwing this out there...
How is RPS any diffrent than all those horendous STAR, People, US magaizine articles about so-and-so sleeping with so-and-so. I can't buy the whoe "RPS is fiction" line, cuz so ain't the crap in those rags...the entire reading public knows this.
louisev:
--- Quote from: el_wing on January 31, 2008, 12:20:11 pm ---I understand the principle of it. I just don't think throwing stones at other people and hurting them by calling them immoral is going help either. Can you understand that, in principle?
Therein lies the problem. I don't agree. You're assuming here that you know them and what they feel too. Hey, some of the rps were outrageous. Some have bad writing. But here we go again, lumping it all together.
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I don't believe Souxi has thrown any stones or made any personal attacks. We have a rule here that personal attacks are not allowed. Simply stating that "RPS is immoral" is not a personal attack, nor do I believe the comments are aimed at you or other individuals specifically.
souxi:
--- Quote from: el_wing on January 31, 2008, 12:20:11 pm ---I understand the principle of it. I just don't think throwing stones at other people and hurting them by calling them immoral is going help either. Can you understand that, in principle?
Therein lies the problem. I don't agree. You're assuming here that you know them and what they feel too. Hey, some of the rps were outrageous. Some have bad writing. But here we go again, lumping it all together.
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I never called anyone immoral, I merely said that writing RPS fiction about Jake and Heath having sex, now that poor Heath is no longer with us, is disrepectful and wrong, can,t you understand that in principal?
louisev:
--- Quote from: el_wing on January 31, 2008, 12:20:11 pm ---I understand the principle of it. I just don't think throwing stones at other people and hurting them by calling them immoral is going help either. Can you understand that, in principle?
Therein lies the problem. I don't agree. You're assuming here that you know them and what they feel too. Hey, some of the rps were outrageous. Some have bad writing. But here we go again, lumping it all together.
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I already made it clear that I could not know but could only base it upon my own feelings if someone wrote that about me. I don't know Michelle, but I think I can safely assume that she would be upset if Heath had an affair with Jake while they were living together, so a fictional story about it would be equally upsetting. It is not an unwarranted assumption, but rather quite a reasonable one. But this begs the question: it does not matter whether or not they are upset - it matters whether they have given permission to be written about. And they have not. Without permission it is not okay, legally or ethically.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: el_wing on January 31, 2008, 12:20:11 pm ---Therein lies the problem. I don't agree. You're assuming here that you know them and what they feel too. Hey, some of the rps were outrageous. Some have bad writing. But here we go again, lumping it all together.
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I'd say the problem is assuming it's OK to write these stories because the survivors--or the principles--haven't said it's not OK. In the case of survivors, I think that shows a lack of sensitivity to the feelings of others.
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