From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 22:11: 9 2003 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 761E237B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74B743FAF for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08364; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:10:50 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205230831.029f6520@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 23:10:49 -0700 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: legitimacy of core (Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object) Cc: Mikhail Teterin , chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030206032630.GA4203@papagena.rockefeller.edu> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205195726.00e5b5a0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 08:26 PM 2/5/2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >People don't have much choice in their citizenship. An American-born >citizen didn't have a choice in that (yes, one can emigrate, but >that's not such an easy option). So it is fair that citizens are >given certain rights. That's not the theory at all. The theory is that rights are "natural." Read the preamble to the US Constitution. >Only someone as pompous as Brett Argumentum ad hominem -- and bogus. >would try to extend that idea to "members of the FreeBSD community". >None of us are forced to be part >of this community. In short, your thesis is that if you can choose to leave, you have no rights? That's REALLY bogus. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message