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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Abuses of the net
Message-ID: <882@midas.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 16:01:43 EST
Article-I.D.: midas.882
Posted: Mon Nov 24 16:01:43 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Nov-86 09:41:27 EST
References: <225@mind.UUCP> <21023@styx.UUCP> <228@mind.UUCP> <21030@styx.UUCP> <231@mind.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <231@mind.UUCP> harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) writes:

>                                 It's an odd state of affairs when people
>can view themselves as the righteous defenders of free speech when they 
>they rush to the defence of someone's right to tell someone else she has
>"shit-for-brains" while clamouring that someone else ought to be deprived
>of his right to denounce it.

Oh, come on. Think for a minute. They only "clamored" after *you* suggested
depriving someone else of their right. One of the most effective ways of
letting doctors know the foulness of a prescription is by making them
take it themselves. There's nothing in the least odd about that.

			Jeff (disclaimers for the careless) Winslow