[aclug-L] Re: Richard Reid

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I agree that this thread should stop immediately, I suggested it
> > probably 12 or more post ago.  But, the flames keep coming and I am not
> >  going to back from one of these comments... now.
>
> Who are you agreeing with?  I don't think anyone has said this thread
> should stop (except you, now).  I think the personal attacks _should_
> stop.  The exchange of ideas, however, is a good thing.

i agree... i think the exchange of ideas is a good thing...  how else are
we to learn if we don't exchange ideas?  textbooks can only teach you so
much...  hearing other's ideas and being challenged (respectfully and
maturely) by others helps us learn more about ourselves and can even (at
times) make our own beliefs stronger... even if the people challenging us
are 100% against what we believe in...  but, like it says, personal attacks
and a few of the little one-liners stuck in here and there are (or at least
can be) offensive and do not belong here...  personally, so far in this
thread, i do not feel attacked or swayed in my beliefs...  i know what i
believe and how i feel and i'm secure in them... some of the posts have
agreed with my thoughts (expressed or not) and some have not, but most have
at the least made me think...  i think that's the biggest point of
dicussions ... to make one think...

> > I guess if my views are too pro-American you can alway have me removed
> > from the list, Jon & John.
>
> Wouldn't it be ironic if we removed someone from our list for disagreeing
> with us?  Ironic and idiotic.  We are, afterall, members of a community
> that values above most else, freedom of speech and
> expression--specifically as it relates to technology, but usually in
other
> areas as well.

fortunately i doubt that would happen on this list, but sadly i know there
are many other situations where things like this have happened in the
history of the US and the history of the world...

gLaNDix

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