Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!princeton!allegra!ulysses!bellcore!whuxcc!lcuxlm!akgua!usl!jla From: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,net.legal,soc.singles Subject: Re: Swinging fists (was AG's Commission ...) Message-ID: <939@usl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 18:32:41 EDT Article-I.D.: usl.939 Posted: Tue Sep 23 18:32:41 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Sep-86 03:45:54 EDT References: <1487@mtx5a.UUCP> <1233@princeton.UUCP> Reply-To: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) Distribution: net Organization: Center for Advanced Clown Studies Lines: 22 Xref: mnetor talk.politics.misc:280 net.legal:3671 soc.singles:87 In article <1567@mtx5a.UUCP> mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) writes: > > "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." > > -- generally attributed to Will Rogers > > > > -- johnmill > > I'd like to point out that if I have a heart condition, your right to swing > your fist may well end a good deal further away than that; and if you don't > have good evidence that I don't suffer from a heart condition, you'd better > be prepared to expect that I do, or you might find out in a way that would > probably leave you rather sorry. Ah, but if I swing my fists in alone in my own home, then there's no problem. Furthermore, if you have such a heart condition, then you are more an exception than a rule and would have to avoid quite a few situations which would not affect 'normal' people, and hence would surely not be ceased because of your particular condition. -- Joseph Arceneaux Lafayette, LA (ut-sally!usl!jla, jla%usl.CSNET)