Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!pyrdc!rucs!bjacobse
From: bjacobse@rucs.radfordu.edu (Barry Jacobsen)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What constitutes abuse of the net?
Summary: Why are some jokes good/bad? Can't you take a joke?
Message-ID: <728@mv7800.rucs.radfordu.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 89 15:45:51 GMT
References: <37942@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Sender: news@rucs.radfordu.edu
Organization: Radford University
Lines: 46

In article <37942@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, hettinger@krypton.arc.nasa.gov (Lawrence J. Hettinger) writes:
> 
> 	I have an issue that I've been dealing with for the past
[ appology deleted ]
> 	In rec.humor I read a particularly brutal series of
> sadistic jokes dealing with child abuse and pedophilia posted
> by an individual who will go unnamed.  I have spent a little
> bit of time yesterday and today blasting this person via e-mail, 
> and I wrote to the system administrator at the University where
> the posting originated.  I basically just lodged a protest with
> the sysad, but also asked that consideration be made of terminating
> this individual's access to the net.
> 
> 	Am I right or wrong?  What constitutes abuse of the net?
> hettinger@krypton.arc.nasa.gov



What strikes me so funny, NOT to say that I condone child abuse in ANY
way, shape or form (including forcing the poor kid to enjoy? shopping when
it's apparent s/he wants a nap/bottle/etc...) but how about the murder
that was made legal, or students not having to attend school, or you name it.
I read the posting, and with all things being equal, the FACT that it was
posted to REC.HUMOR not to REC.SADISM or SCI.CHILD.ABUSE and read IN
CONTEXT meaning for those who can't understand the newsgroup titles and 
SIMPLE ENGLISH it was meant as a joke (HA HA VERY FUNNY. (period)) the 
author himself said that he didn't approve. I mean, hey, let't rip off the
heads of people who tell polock jokes, or catholic jokes, or (GOD help us)
mathematician jokes, jeez guys I guess what  _I'm_ saying is, to coin a 
phrase:

   _HE_ WAS JUST JOKING, CAN'T _YOU_ TAKE A _JOKE_???

Besides didn't your mothers teach you about sticks and stones...

like I said I don't condone it, and yes I have said something to people
about how they treat their child/ren badly, or such but I think that
we're boardering on histerics here...nuf said...

Besides wouldn't want to sound like the JOKE about rec/sci/alt.aquaria/etc.


+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   NO .sig file...NO disclaimers...                                      |
|                  I claim everything, and the guy with the most toys     |
|                    when he dies, WINS!                                  |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+