Hypothetically:
harmony wrote:
3. Do no harm. When in doubt, don't.
#3 applies here, I think.
I believe that you're right (I know, I'm shocked too.)
I feel like I might be forced to do it, though. This is where I'm coming from:
Look at how the FARMS editor has acted towards me since merely posting on a message board that not very many people read. He made things very personal and attacked my personal life and relationships, completely without compunction.
He
intentionally made false statements in a libelous manner when I mentioned that I had information indicating that a certain West Ridge Academy executive (which I didn't name - Randy Oakley, by the way) was excommunicated from the Church. He has actively sought to discredit me on multiple occasions, in the conniving, cowardly manner in which he attacked Quinn's reputation: hinting and name-dropping. I won't even mention his lawyer's disgusting behavior. They have clearly, like many of the other angry, amateur apologists here, deemed me an enemy and chosen to attack me.
This is all
before any hypothetical book deal or legal proceedings.
Now look at how poor Martha was treated. Whether or not you believe her, she's a woman, and the mother of a handicapped child for Christ's sake. They ran her threw the mud because she was deemed an enemy.* FARMS could have ignored the accusation altogether, or privately formed their own opinions but instead set out to attack, minimize, and blame the victim. Bottom line: the way the reviewers treated her was appalling, unChristian, and really a testament to what kind of people they are.
I'm not Martha Beck. I'm not simply implicating one relatively insignificant LDS author, and I'm sure I'm much easier to hate than she is. I make no apologies for who I am, but I also don't pretend to be a religion-less saint.
If I get the FARMS treatment, I feel like I'll have no choice but to take the low road and play by their rules too.
AlmaBound wrote:Eric wrote:...it's about a potential good deed going unpunished.
What do you mean by this?
I mean that if I don't share all the sides of a story that I know, it may come back to haunt me later with accusations of not sharing all the sides of the story.
*I hope to revisit the topic of FARMS' treatment of Martha soon, because it is very interesting to me, but I simply don't have the time now. What I will say, however, is that most of you seem to betray a surprising ignorance of the nature of "recovered memories." (I don't necessarily blame you, if you chose to obtain your information about such things in hobby magazines like Sunstone and FARMS).