Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:42:49 -0400 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: <michael@tenzo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pornography on Yahoo Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010412013138.01ada0b8@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <003c01c0c2f3$b6ee83e0$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <KJEPKOABHFNPCHDCFDKGEEDFCFAA.todd@doonga.net> <01041116384300.04001@pravda.tenzo.net>
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At 06:55 PM 4/11/2001 -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > Based on the Friends I've known, I'd cut her some slack. It's likely she > > doesn't understand the relationship between Yahoo and FreeBSD but is > > motivated by principle to raise what she considers an important issue. > > Compared to her single post, much more noise has been added to the list by > > all the people who've felt it necessary to respond with ridicule. > >And I believe people can keep their damned morals and principles to >themselves and not try to push them on others. It would be one thing to >talk to people in conversation about it. But to spam an email list with her >"important issues" is a bunch of crap. I prefer not to give my opinion of her crusade simply because I feel pr0n is wrong too. I, however, would not try to spam people about my beliefs which brings me to my point. I am under the impression that this woman probably did not *know* that she was posting a message to a group of people that could do nothing about the request she presented. I like to remember that many people in the world today are, well frankly, not technically savvy and are usually short of patience when it comes to finding what they want on the Internet. Given this possibility I feel it is entirely plausible that this woman is reaching out for assistance from whomever she can while at the same time not paying too much attention about how she is doing it. If I am right, and I hope I am, I hope we can put this behind us and move on with the more important details in life. I feel it is time go back to the questions like: "I accidently ran a command my friend gave me...something like rm -rf /../*/* and now I can't boot into my FreeBSD box. What should I do?" See? We can now go back to answering mindless questions such as the aforementioned =P Anyhoo, as a neutral party in this and a mindless victim as well, I part with this last comment... BOOYA! - Jim PS - I never got the impression she was "pushing" her morals on us rather than looking for people to fight something she feels is important. Now, I shall be checking my *other* inbox that is getting my filtered mail from "freebsd-wrong-mailing-list@". buh bye....bye now, buh bye...buuuuh bye >Just because she's a "Friend" or a >Quaker, that's doesn't mean she gets any special excuse to push her morals >on -questions. If my morals and beliefs caused me to want to push Atheism >on this mailing list would I get the same "slack" ? I think not. Quakers >are people too, and I could care less what kind of great "Friend" she is. >If the friends are all about spamming my email box with their morals, then I >don't consider them a "Friend". > > > My hunch is that the Friends would probably view pornography as a violence > > issue and it's hard to find a religious community that has done more to > > combat violence in all forms. I have a lot of relatives who are Friends >and > > I've always admired their committment to peace, rejection of religious >dogma, > > and willingness to put their beliefs on the line. > >Who gives a damn how they view pornography ? I view pornography with my >DVD-ROM. Big deal. So many religious people feel they have a right to push >their views, morals, and beliefs on others. I have one thing to say to >that. FOAD. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - Jim - NOTJames - jconner@enterit.com - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - | Today's errors, in contrast: | - | Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935" | - | UNIX - "segmentation fault - core dumped" | - | Humans - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up" | - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - (To view this properly use a non-proportional font in your MUA) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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