SCA: badly-behaving peers
Jul. 11th, 2005 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioA question has come up among some SCA folks, and I'm interested in hearing a broader perspective. Particularly because I've been a peer for a while and have become less active in recent years, it's possible I'm a bit out of touch.
Non-peers: to what extent do you look up to peers (define "look up" however you like)? Are you negatively affected (again, define how you like) if a peer does something bad?
Peers and non-peers: if a peer does something bad, is that significantly worse to you than if a non-peer did it? To what extent does the behavior of an individual peer reflect on his order or on the peerage in general? Does the answer vary based on what the peer did?
I'll post my own thoughts later; I want to hear others' first.
Clarification: "bad" = "behaves badly", not "produces substandard work". Sorry I didn't make that more clear.
Non-peers: to what extent do you look up to peers (define "look up" however you like)? Are you negatively affected (again, define how you like) if a peer does something bad?
Peers and non-peers: if a peer does something bad, is that significantly worse to you than if a non-peer did it? To what extent does the behavior of an individual peer reflect on his order or on the peerage in general? Does the answer vary based on what the peer did?
I'll post my own thoughts later; I want to hear others' first.
Clarification: "bad" = "behaves badly", not "produces substandard work". Sorry I didn't make that more clear.
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Date: 2005-07-13 02:06 am (UTC)I think I am just wise enough to realize that there will be a few "bad apples" no matter what I'm involved in. The trick is to stay away from them and enjoy my involvement in the group(s).
In an ideal world there wouldn't be bad apples. In a slightly-less-ideal world, the bad apples wouldn't encounter newcomers. Sadly, we live in the moderately-less-ideal world. :-(
Well, every once in a while, I meet someone who's a little full of themselves and think "What the heck were the Knights/Pelicans/Laurels thinking that time?"
One possibility, of course, is "it looked like a good idea at the time" -- the person later turned out to be less peerly, or the order misjudged. Not an excuse; just an observation.
As a peer, are you concerned that others don't respect or understand your fellows or the IDEA of the Peerage, maybe?
I'm trying to figure out how concerned I should be about bad behavior from another order member reflecting badly on the whole order. More in a followup post coming soon.