Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!sun7.ads.ARPA!neville From: neville@sun7.ads.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Everything you've always wanted to know about sex.1 Message-ID: <8703210457.AA06760@sun7.ads.arpa> Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 23:57:29 EST Article-I.D.: sun7.8703210457.AA06760 Posted: Fri Mar 20 23:57:29 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 22:44:03 EST Sender: aryeh@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Lines: 61 From neville@zodiac Fri Mar 20 20:50:02 1987 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 20 Mar 87 20:55:07 PST From: neville@zodiac (Neville Newman) To: neville@zodiac [ i originally mis-posted (or mis-cc'd) to info-gnu instead of info-gnu-emacs, so a few people may see it twice ] RMS, You didn't mention a deadline or termination conditions for the survey. i have just now been able to get another look at the file, and will respond anyway. (cc:'d to the list, to be sure they see it) Offensive: causing displeasure or resentment Offense: a breach of a moral or social code; the state of being insulted or morally outraged; the act of displeasing or affronting; something that outrages the moral or physical senses -B bestiality with -M triple parallel (Menage a Trois) option -n necrophilia (if target process is not dead, program kills it) -O parallel access (orgy) -P pedophilia (must specify a child process) -r rape (overrides target user's protections) -s sadism (see -m) -W whips (see also -s, -C, and -m) Half of the above involve physical abuse of adults or children. That should be enough reason to remove at least those options. i am amazed that the EMACS community does not find bestiality offensive. i am not surprised at the -M and -O options, though it saddens me to see our society following in the footsteps of others throughout history that have fallen when the people lost the ability to tell right from wrong. While you're at it, why not include a -A (spread AIDS) option or a -k (murder by abortion) option. Maybe a -D (trade sex for drugs) option just for yuks. The fact of the matter is that by encouraging distribution of this (EMACS) code to the entire net-connected world, you are in a position of respon- sibility. i doubt that you would ever intentionally put a trojan horse program in an EMACS dist that uses the CRT scan to blind a user, or shut down cooling circuits if the code found itself in use at a reactor installation. The same kind of damage is inflicted on individuals and society by that type of irresponsibility as with the distribution of this "humor". i would applaud your decision to take out the -r option, but it doesn't even begin to deal with the problem. -neville