From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 29 22:18:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4ED37B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org [64.239.180.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D80E43E6A for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:18:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@jetcafe.org) Received: from hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7U5Il118985; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:18:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org) Message-Id: <200208300518.g7U5Il118985@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:18:42 -0700 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Neal E Westfall writes: > But isn't the jerk just a part of the dance? Yes. Part of the dance is to dance with the jerk, not bump into him and then cry "cretin!". >> It -is- bullying to suppress the expression of unpopular ideas. > But then you state (below): >> I would have no problem with this as long as we get some OPEN media, >> somewhere...without the voice of every damn social apologist crying >> "censor the morons". > A rather ironic (read: self-contradictory) sentiment, don't you think? More like a realistic one. People can't seem to handle unpopular ideas. Ideally, you want all fora open to them, but I'll take what I can get. ;) ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Possession of a system of knowledge, or an interest in it, or in discovering one, shouldn't be assumed to confer any license or capacity to operate it. Individual criticisms of a system, incapacity to operate it, or dissatisfaction with it should not be confused with any shortcoming of the system itself. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message