Text 25957, 83 rader
Skriven 2009-01-11 14:49:06 av Lee Lofaso (3:800/432.0)
  Kommentar till text 25895 av Joe Bruchis (1:3828/12.0)
Ärende: Tolerance
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Hello Joe,

>LL>In light of a recent flame war in this echo (subject "Tit for
>LL>Tat"), the following Fidonews editorial, dated 24 October 1993,
>LL>written by Sylvia Maxwell, comes to mind -

>LL>Tolerance.

JB>Shouldn't you be referring to intolerance when citing Tit for Tat?

Probably.  But I didn't write the editorial.  :)

>LL>Sometimes, one gets their comeuppance.  I found myself, this week,
>LL>almost cutting an article.  I wanted to.  We all have our sore
>LL>spots, and I will admit that mine are hate literature, violence,
>LL>intolerance ... the mindset that says "I am *RIGHT*, and you will
>LL>admit to it or I will ram it down your throat."

JB>Not the BK> Killer again!?!

Hey, we could invite him here to join the fun.  Whataya say?

>LL>When we were applying for this job, I remember a letter to Tom
>LL>Jennings. I am not sure which one of us said it, but the effect was
>LL>that the net allowed each to speak mind-to-mind rather than
>LL>face-to-face.  That the net overrode colour, accent, sex, physical
>LL>deformities and all the other stupid impediments to thinking of
>LL>people as individuals.  Tom replied that he liked to think of the
>LL>net as a roomfull of people, armed to the teeth, but with no
>LL>casualties.

JB>Tom Jennings was a homosexual. According to some of the
JB>Bible versions out there, he was to be vomited from the
JB>face of the Earth.

I thought the Bible said Jesus was going to vomit upon those upon
the Earth who did not heed His ways, not the other way around.  :)

>LL>Freedom of the press has a great disadvantage, a press is an
>LL>expensive beast, and freedom to use it in any form can only work if
>LL>everyone has access.  That has not been the case with the printing
>LL>press, but it is far truer with a net like Fidonet.  The
>LL>intolerances can only be fought if we can first hear them, and we
>LL>can then respond to them.  Both are required.

JB>There are 4 major Cable News Channels and each of them has
JB>a different twist or spin on the exact same issue. How will
JB>we ever know who is right and who is wrong?

Bill O'Reilly is always right.  Don't you know that?
Keith Olberman is always right.  Don't you know that?
Lou Dobbs is always right.  Don't you know that?
Unless you want to believe D.L. Hughey, who is always
breaking the news that only he is right.

>LL>There is an election this week in Canada.  One of the parties is
>LL>campaigning on the premise of replacing the airforce with a team of
>LL>levitating yogi's.  Crazy.  But then, fifteen years back, I
>LL>remember two groups that campaigned on another basis.  Essentially,
>LL>the idea was that each side got 10,000 or so atom bombs.  If the
>LL>other side did not behave, then we all committed suicide by aiming
>LL>and pulling the trigger. Crazyness is relative.

JB>Probably Cajun relatives.

The saner ones, no doubt.

>LL>We only get to choose when alternatives exist.  Perhaps that is the
>LL>great reward of tolerance: that we give others, and therefore
>LL>ourselves, choices.  I don't give a damn who is *RIGHT*.  I wanna
>LL>fly.

JB>Fly on little bro!

Grabbing trumpet.  Playing theme from Rocky.  Gonna Fly Now!

--Lee


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