| 1 |
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 20:56 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:36:26 -0500 John David Robinson |
| 3 |
> <strider@××××××.net> wrote: |
| 4 |
> | Even if you don't agree with or understand them, or decide against |
| 5 |
> | their objections in the end, their opinions are just as worthy of |
| 6 |
> | respect and consideration as yours. |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> They are? What about people who are of the opinion that the earth is |
| 9 |
> flat? Or people who think that JFK was assassinated by aliens who crash |
| 10 |
> landed their UFOs at Roswell? Or people who think that wearing magnetic |
| 11 |
> bracelets is good for your health? Or people who think that Avril |
| 12 |
> Lavigne has made a valuable cultural contribution to humanity? Or people |
| 13 |
> who think that DJB is the best thing since sliced bread? Or emacs users |
| 14 |
> who indent their Java source code using tabs? Should I respect their |
| 15 |
> opinions too? |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
Heh. Those Java tabbers... they just boil my blood. =) |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
I'm not trying to start a massive thread here or anything. I think I |
| 20 |
understand you. Yes, some opinions or beliefs people hold are (to me, |
| 21 |
too) laughable. But making light of them still offends people in whose |
| 22 |
lives those issues actually matter. I just wanted to bring that out. |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
The particular opinions you made fun of are much more widely held than |
| 25 |
JFK's assassination by aliens. Some people who read this forum found |
| 26 |
your post funny; some found it offensive. It's clear that this comes as |
| 27 |
a surprise to some people, and not at all to others. That's all I |
| 28 |
really wanted to make clear. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
- John |
| 31 |
|
| 32 |
-- |
| 33 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives