From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44C62E42.1010904@anvil.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:44:18 +0100 From: Dave Lukes User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com References: <5c04e44072538158af1aa0c3ce3f7349@plan9.bell-labs.com> <44C54D60.9040803@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <44C54D60.9040803@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8c678bec-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ronald G Minnich wrote: > jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > > > It's not for me to say whether he should be banned or not, Me neither: I don't run the list. > > but I would voice the opinion that he needs sensitivity training. Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no, but* ... so do many of us. > I think until he grows up, he ought to be banned. The correct > decision was made. There are no "correct" decisions in cases like this, just opinions. Speaking as someone who's grandparents died in Auschwitz, I don't think he should have been banned simply for saying "Sieg Heil", but I don't know the whole story. Empirically, banning things (whether they be people or opinions) doesn't work: one needs to embrace and extend. Unfortunately, one doesn't always like what one has to embrace. D. * Little Britain reference.