[Bards] Courtesy book

[Gerald L. Norris Jr.]

While I agree that it should be a group effort, I believe that asking one
person to act as "lead" on the project will help to keep things moving in a
direction rather than bog down while a committee worries over whether
something will offend someone.

Inevitably, the work _will_ offend some ("Who is he to tell me about
Courtesy?"  or "What gives them the right to play at being an Ansteorran Ann
Landers").  This is true of most works, whether art _or_ science.
Attempting to please everyone tends to, in the end, please no one at all.

Gerald.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simone Risher" <Simone at elfsea.net>
I dear freind have to disagree. we've been having this debate on the GC list
one persons vision of courtesy may not be anothers. just like one persons
view of the dream may not be anothers. I belive the Bards on this list give
us a good crosssection of the varring oppinions of what coutesy is. I feel
that this should be a group effort. Putting one persons vision as the
template could lead to a publication that is to stringent or preachy, and
could become a platform for dictating morality instead of what is intended.
a group concensus could help avoid some possible pitfalls.

Simone