Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 07:25:57 03/28/01
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On March 28, 2001 at 08:29:40, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote: >I'm posting this here because it is relevant to the election. >I'm posting it now because this is the time for preemptive complaints. >I permit myself to post it here because the person who started the >thread properly included the word [Moderation]. > >The issue being whether or not political ranting should be permitted, >on March 23, 2001 at 14:43:02, one of the moderator candidates wrote, >in another thread: > >snip >>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. >snip > >I think the above demonstrates a lack of understanding, and that the >failure of the principle that it implies, in practice, can be observed >in other discussion groups. > >Being "entitled" to hold an opinion does not equal being "entitled" to post >it here. Thus, to begin with, the reply begs the question. > >I asked him (in effect) whether or not it is his opinion that we have >an "entitlement" to rant about politics, religion, sexuality, race, etc., >[begin italics] in this discussion group [end italics]. >Since he is a moderator candidate, I think he should answer. >The answer must be no of course. The reasons are objective in that the >consequences can be observed in other discussion groups. And THAT is why >the post in question should have been deleted. > >I'm not just picking on him: this seems very obvious to me, and it is >terrifying that so many intelligent and thoughtful people can't >understand it, as though they had never thought about it. Hullo, I think that the answer was quite well-embedded in your question. Thorsten's post was at least marginally related to computer chess, therefore it should have been allowed, as it was. Had he been ranting about other topics you listed above, I would have deleted it without any compunction. (He does rant occasionally and usually manages with only a yellow card, so to speak...) Therefore, me dear Ecuadorian bro', I see no petitio principii in my post that you apperently picked out for a nugget of intellectual exercise. However, I must applaud the manner in which you executed it -- reminds me of a colleague of mine whose style I appreciate. Might you be one of the Oxonians that I was privileged to get to know through a mutual friend, playing backgammon in Amsterdam, in a shady Dunantstraat houselet, for small stakes (a Heineken or two per game)? *** Djordje
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