Re: [Nolug] Distro suggestions

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:37, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably
> > a duck.
> >
> > Which is why there have been so many discussions about removing it.
>
> Of course. Because it isn't clear. Debian shouldn't host non-free.
>
> >> Gee, before we get into this debate involving words like "socialist",
> >> "free country", "free enterprise", "extreme liberals", etc., I'd need
> >> to know a lot more about you. What are your premises?
> >
> > ?????
>
> Conversations between people who have use different set of premises
> tend to go nowhere. Introducing loaded words (e.g. "socialist",
> "extreme liberal") into the conversation don't help because people
> coming from different backgrounds with different premises tend to mean
> different things when they use those words.

Well, if you're not a drone, "socialist" has a pretty specific
meaning (try 'dict socialist'). Same with "free enterprise". You
are absolutely right when you say that "extreme liberal" is has a
loaded context (which is why I didn't use it).

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Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
Jefferson, LA USA
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of
government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson
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