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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: more stupidity
Message-ID: <3714@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 90 19:06:49 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John Haugh) writes:
> 
> In article <1990Nov2.135633.23345@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry
> E. Schaffer) writes:
> >   This appears to be a threat - it may be based on asking people
> > not to say things which would hurt two people, but it still is
> > a threatening people who want to discuss a given topic.
> 
> how are you being threatened?  webster's says a threat is "an
> expression or intention to do harm".  i'm not going to harm
> you, i'm going to be nice to you and ask you to exercise some
> self restraint.  see - i'm being NICE.  i'm ASKING, not telling.

Gee.  That's like the mafia gangster "asking" the store owner if he'd like to
buy "insurance."  After all, he wasn't threatening anybody when he said that
"sometimes things happen in this neighbourhood."  No, you've never made any
implied threats at all, I'm sure.  [sarcasm]

> 
> i'm being nice to you and asking you to shut the f*ck up
> about things which don't concern you.

Gee, it looks like your subject describes your posting quite well!  I'm glad to
see you follow netiquette so closely!

Ask away, but don't expect anyone to listen to you.  I certainly have no
intention of listening to some totalitarian loudmouth tell me what to talk
about and think about.  I doubt that many other people on the net feel
differently.

In case you didn't know, you can't kill a discussion on the net by posting
articles saying "DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS."  That's only going to fan the fire.
Every posting you make on this topic encourages people to talk about it even
more, as well as making you look more and more foolish in at least one person's
eyes.

[Sorry for the minor flame, folks.  This is just starting to get too
ridiculous.]

cjs
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