Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG) Message-ID: <445@mccc.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 88 17:25:50 GMT References: <1092@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <429@mccc.UUCP> <1086@etive.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Organization: The College On The Other Side of U. S. Route 1 Lines: 31 In article <1086@etive.ed.ac.uk> jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield) writes: =In article <429@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes: = =>In article clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes: = =>=To do so would justify the =>=burning of Jewish literature during WWII (because the Nazi's found =>=it offensive), to do so would justify the censoring of certain =>=forms of literature in South Africa (because the white supremists =>=find it offensive). = =>Now, now. Let's compare apples with apples. Surely you can't equate =>religious and intellectual works with jokes? You can?? How sad. = =Just out of idle curiosity, what is this inherent difference between =jokes and "religious and intellectual works" that makes it OK to =suppress one and not the other? Julian, I doubt that anything I could say would impress you. If you don't understand the difference between "religious and intellectual works" on the one hand and "jokes" on the other, I'm afraid I can't help you. Pete -- Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Mercer College CompuServe: 70240,334 1200 Old Trenton Road GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800