Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:46:24 03/24/01
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On March 24, 2001 at 08:41:11, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote: >On March 23, 2001 at 14:43:02, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>On March 23, 2001 at 06:19:58, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote: >> >>>. >> >> >>If you were referring to Thorsten's posting, I see nothing offensive in it. It >>may be against your own ideas, (and mine, for that matter), but it is not >>offensive in a general sense. It is rather biased, but everyone should be >>entitled to his/her own opinion. >> >>*** Djordje > >[BEGIN OFF TOPIC POST] >We all have many opinions. >We separate our discussion groups by subject, to keep our opinions from >running together and making a big mess. >It takes some self-discipline, and common courtesy, to keep this working. >We make a "social contract". >In this sense, I am NOT "entitled" to discuss my political and economic >and religious and sexual and racial ideas here. >Am I? Really? >Am I, Djordje? > >At what intellectual and social level is this discussion? I think it is low >enough, that we should teach it to children already: in a game of kickball, >I do not take the ball and start a game of dodgeball. In a spelling bee, I >do not start singing and dancing. In a library, I do not make excessive >noise. I am NOT "entitled" to violate these little social contracts that make >a civil society possible. >If you can't understand that, I will begin by blaming your parents. >[END OFF TOPIC POST] Thorsten's viewpoints are homogenized, meaning that political philosophy, computer chess, religion, and Star Trek are combined into a unified mass. If you ask Thorsten to delete everything except the computer chess, I don't think it will work. He's either here being himself, or he's gone. A middle ground is extremely unlikely. FYI I discuss Thorsten in my moderation statement. bruce
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