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From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
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Subject: Re: opinion about posted 'game'
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.104233.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 10:42:33 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.014040.2663@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, weiner@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Jeff Weiner) writes:
>>I, personally, find such a concept disgusting.
>
> I respect your opinion David, and encourage others to voice theirs in the 
> appropriate arenas.  However, the file will stay in the archive.  
> I would view anything else as blatent censorship, and I will have no part
> of that whatsoever.

Perhaps it would be best if people actually look at what I wrote, rather than
what they want to read into the message.  Nowhere did I state (or suggest) that
the file in question be REMOVED from the archive.

I do feel, however, that even computer games deserve some forms of comment. 
One does not turn off one's moral and ethical standards while sitting at the
computer.  I doubt that many people reading messages in this forum would have
even THOUGHT about the stereotyping involved in games such as the file in
question.

From the responses so far, I guess any condemnation of a computer game concept
is equivalent to calling for the burning of books or the establishment of
churches.  I find it disturbing that people are unwilling to face the possible
racism (or sexism) in a computer program.

-- 

David Paschall-Zimbel		davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu