[Mailman-Developers] English (USA)

[Richard Barrett]

Barry

Can we put a cap on this before people decide that they have better things 
to do than develop Mailman.

I'm sure there is mailing list for naive political rants but I would prefer 
not to be subscribed to it.

If that list is the Mailman-Developers list them I'm off!

Richard

At 18:41 23/04/2003, Marty Galyean wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 10:59, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > > What ever happened to rationality?  When did emotional moping take
> > > precedence over sanity?
> >
> > Please accept it as a rational fact that many people will often react
> > emotionally to what they see.  And please accept it as a rational fact
> > that the ways in which superpowers often treat weaker countries tend
> > to make a lot of people in those weaker countries emotionally upset.
>
>Ok.  I didn't say it was not a fact that they may become upset.  What I
>dispute is whether they are responsible for being upset over what they
>read or whether the writer is responsible.  I, like most others who
>value Liberty, hold adults responsible for thier emotion and think that
>the State/Collective/Whatever should decidedly NOT be in the business of
>managing individuals emotions as that is a prelude to a very deep
>tyranny involving "thought crime" and such.  I give up trying to
>explain.  I cannot argue against the "Earth as a Big Kindergarten"
>theory of Socialism from which the "emotionally upset" argument seems to
>stem.
>
>Marty