I need to head out the door to work so this will be shorter than I like -- but I think for me the issue is that the kind of responsibility we're talking about here can't be enforced from the outside -- not within fandom anyway (i.e. yes, outside agencies or LJ could certainly see to the removal of what they see objectionable *here*, but within the framework of fandom, people are either behaving responsibly by their own standards or they aren't. If they aren't no one outside is likely to be able to force them to short of outright harrassment or intimidation -- behaviors that are no better than the behaviors other people would like to see stopped.
and if they are behaving responsibly then no one within fandom really has a solid argument that their level of responsbility is better or more "right" than anyone else's. There are no fannish police.
It's like any other controversial issue -- people either believe other people are capable of making moral distinctions or they don't -- but agian, morality to me is the standards to which I hold myself, not the standards I universally hold others to.
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Date: 2007-06-08 12:08 pm (UTC)and if they are behaving responsibly then no one within fandom really has a solid argument that their level of responsbility is better or more "right" than anyone else's. There are no fannish police.
It's like any other controversial issue -- people either believe other people are capable of making moral distinctions or they don't -- but agian, morality to me is the standards to which I hold myself, not the standards I universally hold others to.