I don't read the "9fans list terms of use", but if there is any law to
forbid just a thought, please warn me about it.

elbing

2006/7/25, Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>:
>
> 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.
>