On Thursday 17 of April 2014 11:34:55 Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/17/2014 10:16 AM, auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
Slanderous statements are by definition attacks against a person by denigrating his inherent qualities, one of which is his health.
There are two flaws in that assertion. First it assumes that health is an inherent quality. Its not. Sometimes people can be ill, sometimes well. Sometimes they can be 'walking wounded'.
Second, telling someone they are ill regardless of how they feel is not slanderous. If it was then doctors would not be able to tell of diagnoses. For example, an x-ray may show up a previously unsuspected condition, cancer or TB, for example.
I'm not a lawyer, although I could ask a relative of mine about the matter, but saying that someone is ill is not merely an opinion, since doctors can decide based on facts whether this is true or false. What you and others are trying to convince me about here frankly does not make any sense at all.
Also, this quotation was not presented in this mailing list by the one who said it, it was presented here by Anton Aylward, who apparently agrees with it.
Can you detail the basis for that assertion? Please, don't confuse me with James while doing so. The fact that I'm not denying it vociferously doesn't mean I agree with it. The fact that I think illness is sometimes an opinion doesn't mean I agree with it. The fact that I'm, by training and education, an engineer, doesn't mean I think religious belief is an mental illness.
I based it on the assumption that what one posts on the internet is not by accident or mistake. If I were wrong, I retract this comment, but I don't think I'm wrong, because you never apologized for it.
Are you implying that one cannot be offensive or slanderous if he quotes someone else's words?
I think he's stating something that is a legal fact.
Actually, both of you are wrong, otherwise journalists would be immune to defamation lawsuits. I'm not trying to invoke legal arguments here, I'm just stating the obvious fact that falsely calling people collectively sick is against the netiquette. Seriously, is this so hard to understand? If I call you sick and you're healthy or if I say that engineers are sick people, isn't this slanderous, abusive or aggressive? Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org