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Subject: Re: Re: Offensiveness (long article) - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 4-Nov-83 22:26:54 EST
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tekcad!franka    Nov  4 09:38:00 1983


	Maybe I am misguided, Steve, but when you get right down to it, ALL
humor (except, perhaps, puns) steps on someones toes. Humor is the act of
pointing out, via exageration, the foibles and follies of our little world.
Unfortunately, there are people who are opposed to this sort of exageration.
I believe that what Bradbury was saying was that no one group has the right
to dictate what is or is not said by another. You may shout back if you want,
but don't gag the person before he has a chance to speak. You speak of fol-
lowing generally accepted rules of order and propriety. Whose rules, Steve?
Yours? A bigotted middle-aged factory worker's? A poor ghetto black's? A
young computer professional's?
	One problem is, Steve, that any communication network is too valuble
as a method of free expression to be allowed to have its content dictated by
any static guidelines. Another is that some people are all too ready to pro-
pose their own guidelines as absolute rules (all done in the best of causes,
of course). If you are sooooo certain about the correctness of your "generally
accepted rules of order and propriety", why don't you start your own mailing
list where you and your friends don't have to bothered by us who may not agree
with your rules?

               				From the truly menacing,
   /- -\       				but usually underestimated,
    <->        				Frank Adrian
               				(tektronix!tekcad!franka)