Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:44:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "c. schindler" <cschindl@wam.umd.edu> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pornography on Yahoo Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104121343290.18119-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <003c01c0c2f3$b6ee83e0$aa240018@cx443070b>
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sounds like someone is having a bad day. -------------- chris news for free-bsd questions, stuff that really matters On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, 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. 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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