Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:55:56 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: <michael@tenzo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pornography on Yahoo Message-ID: <003c01c0c2f3$b6ee83e0$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <KJEPKOABHFNPCHDCFDKGEEDFCFAA.todd@doonga.net> <01041116384300.04001@pravda.tenzo.net>
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> 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
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