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From: karl@dartvax.UUCP (S. Delage.)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Poetry and directions.
Message-ID: <1913@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 19:15:52 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 23 19:15:52 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Jun-84 04:19:05 EDT
Organization: Dartmouth College
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If net.suicide is going to contain only poetry, it may as well
stop using up disk space. No matter how good or bad such verse is,
I don't think that's exactly what this newsgroup is for. In fact,
it's unclear exactly what this is for. The single topic of
suicide, and the reasons for and against it, are not things that
are conduicive to ongoing, let alone ongoing and interesting,
discussion. In fact, in my experience either people are not
interested in the topic, or else they have thought about it in
detail, and the articles are mere rehashings of arguments they
have already considered. That may seem dogmatic, and it certainly
is, in the abstract -- it's unreasonable to categorically state
"I've thought about it already and nothing anyone else has to say
is new". In practice, I have yet to read an article that expresses
a novel thought.

{cornell,astrovax,uvm-gen,decvax,colby}!dartvax!karl ~ karl@dartmouth