Bruce Cuthbert Says

Bruce Cuthbert has left a new comment on your post "He Is No Machiavellian Prince":

This comment/question is not directed at any specific post on this blog but instead at the blog in general. I don't read this blog often or any others. Mostly because this and many other blogs allow insulting, uninformed and biased comments cloaked by the cowardly cover of anonanymity. It is obvious that many comments come from representatives of the same faction in town and are self serving. Which leads me to the point of my posting. Why do you help in perpetuating this subterfuge by posting anonymous comments. If people want to spout off and spread their propaganda why not force them to acknowledge themselves instead of hiding behind anonanymity thereby reducing this blog to a gossip column. Because everyone else does it doesn't make it right. I have always considered you a woman of honourable morals, values and principles. Allowing this to continue appears inconsistent with those positive characteristics. I could care less whether you posted this or not but would appreciate your rational in giving unidentified malcontents a forum. You identify yourself in support of your positions why not make everyone? If they don't believe in their opinions enough to put their name to it their postings are of little to no value.
Bruce Cuthbert
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I agree that  anonymousl comments may not have the same weight  as those  with a name attached.

I do not  agree  it  is subterfuge.

There is an argument to be made  for. gossip. It  is an essential aspect  of  human discourse.  It certainly cannot be argued that people don't do it. 

I  do encourage    anonymous comments. If I insist on names, there is no means of forcing  means of forcing the issue. .

I can think of many practical reason why a person would  not want to reveal themselves.

But  the   most reasonabale is that most people do not  choose to become bad friends because of a difference of opinion.

I think the advantages of anonymity .far  outweighs  the disadvantage.

 Don't forget, most of the back and forth is about town politics. What is so sacred or righteous about that. We should engage freely..If the only way we can do it is under cover, well that's better than not doing it at all.

You are entitled to your opinion. Thank you for expressing it. Feel free not to log n. But you never know what you might be missing.

If you are attacked for being honest  about where you stand. Someone else will no doubt defend you.

Several hundred people visit and view every day. Many have probably never commented. But for those who do, until social media came into our lives, they have never been so free.

  I welcome them.And I welcome you not o read  the blog if that is your preference

. But because it is ,don't  mmake the assumption  that's all there is..

Have a great evening. There are places in the world where the day is already over. and  nowhere will it come again..