Re: [Nolug] Political organisation

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:27, Dave Prentice wrote:
> From me (Dave P.)
> >Y'all,
> >Consider yourselves warned that if we continue this thread I'm going
> to have to get Biblical and talk about
> >one-world government and the antichrist system.
> From Ron:
> >> >Please restrain yourself, or take it off-list.
> From me:
> >>Ron,
> >> The idea is that ALL this should be off-list. I thought NOLUG
> was supposed to be Linux-related.
> From Ron:
> >It was my understanding that it was a general-purpose list for
> members of NOLUG, and thus everything is fair
> >game unless subscribants ask that a thread be taken off-list.
> >If I'm wrong, Im sure we'd all like to know the rules.
>
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> ------------------------------------------------
> Ron,
> Let's say we allow discussion of politics from several
> philosophical standpoints on-list. In that case how can we say that
> other philosophical standpoints, i.e. religious views, must be kept
> off-list? If some philosophies are fair game for on-list discussion,
> all should be. If some are excluded, all should be.
>
> In this thread I keep hearing people's ideas about politics and
> government from a secular perspective. I've held my peace so far.
> Since I don't want to unsubscribe, it's automatic that as a list
> member I will hear others' points of view. However, I would then
> expect that my point of view would be listened to also. So if you guys
> want to continue discussing politics and government on-list, then
> don't get judgemental and ask that others' views be kept off-list.
> Fair is fair.

Good point. It's just, I guess, that the tone of your "warning post"
put visions of intolerant, apocalyptic screeds (from '$ dict screed':
"An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.) in my head.

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