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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Newsgroup content and our ethics/morals/values
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Date: 3 May 88 11:50:33 GMT
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henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes:
 >erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) wrote: 
 >->The question is brought up of why rec.guns is acceptible while
 >->soc.sex is not.
 >
 >That's an easy one: it is socially acceptable to talk about ways to
 >kill and mutilate people, while it is considered tacky to talk about
 >making love to them.  

As has been stated before, rec.guns is not a discussion of ways to kill anybody;
and most recreational sex has very little to do with "love".

This is not to say that rec.guns is more valuable or worthy a topic than
soc.sex, but to point out the folly of simplistic and naive reductionist 
statements.
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