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Subject: Sickning, sickning, sickning...
Message-ID: <151@aplvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 09:57:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  1 09:57:06 1983
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I'm responding to the response to the response where OZ sez: "all computer
people don't HAVE to be educated, intelligent people," and goes on to prove
it in his letter.  Pretty clever way to make a point, I'd say.

Actually, I agree with much of what OZ said.  What I object to is his
inference that anti-homosexuals like the infamous Ray are uneducated and
stupid.  That is just name-calling and is no different than Ray calling gays
"faggots."  Educated, intelligent people can be wrong (as anyone who reads
this network can attest).

What seems to happen with this issue (as with so many others) is that
emotions and gut-reactions wreak a frontal lobotomy on any sort of
intelligent discussion.  So far the reaction to Ray's remarks has ranged
from the hysterical, "let's kill the bastard", to the more thoughtful,
"let's torture him first."  Yet he never advocating persecuting anyone.  For
all we know, Ray may be revulsed by the gay community, but in no way wants
to enforce his feelings with persecutory laws.  Thus far, his only crime is
name-calling -- a guilt we all share.  Frankly, I doubt if we'll ever hear
from the scumbag again, considering our reaction to his first foray.  Maybe
if we cool the rhetoric we can get something going here.  A one-sided
discussion is merely a diatribe, serving no one.

					Don Davis
					JHU/APL
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