At 06:31 PM 2/29/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
>>From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>At 02:40 AM 2/29/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
>> >* Disclaimer: "Within reason". I admit that there are probably certain
>> >extreme views
>> >on certain topics that would cause me to want to make their supporters
>>feel
>> >*very*
>> >unwelcome here.
>>
>>Can I take a guess as to what these might be?
>>
>>Perhaps supporters of, say, the KKK, the Nazis' "Final Solution", Al Qaeda,
>>Wahabbisim.and supporters of continued "martyrdom" operations against
>>Israeli Civilians?
>
>Yes, probably, depending upon what exactly was being said by them. It'd be
>nice
>to be able to advocate totally free speech of any kind on the list, but I
>fear that
>would ultimately reduce the list to chaos. The ACLU might give me an F, I
>suppose,
>but I think any discussion *on this list* on those topics with those types
>of supporters
>would serve little purpose but to lower the S/N ratio of the list to zero.
>
>Who am I to decide where to draw that line between acceptable/unacceptable
>discussion? Nobody. But I'm generally content to leave the line-setting to
>the list
>owners and to group opinion.
>
>John, do you disagree with that list, or find it hypocritical of me to be
>drawing the line
>at a point of topics that I find personally most offensive?
Not at all.... I think that I would be uncomfortable seeing the above
opions espoused here.
It did occur to me to wonder, however, if there is really such a material
difference between the above opinions and the following opinion:
"One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is
the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected."
Isn't calling for the exclusion of people with religious beliefs from
respectability in a free society just as offensive?
JDG
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