Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!yali From: yali@utcsrgv.UUCP (Yawar Ali) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: flame on people who can't read. Message-ID: <1821@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 12:57:52 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1821 Posted: Fri Jul 22 12:57:52 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 17:45:35 EDT Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 34 Really folks, let's try to foster an atmosphere of tolerance and make allowances for people holding differing viewpoints. How can we expect to hold amicable discussions if we persist in casting aspersions on the motives of other contributors and attacking them without even properly reading and attempting to understand their articles --- indeed, often misquoting them in the process? I am referring to exchanges such as the following one which took place recently in this newsgroup: - An attempt by one contributor to stifle debate on the abortion issue by arguing that only those who had themselves had abortions were qualified to speak on the matter. - A response by an anti-choicer suggesting that those who argued for a woman's right to choose were sexually irresponsible, suffered from guilty consciences, and were akin to murderers. - A retort by the first debater to the effect that the anti-choice viewpoint would flourish well in a totalitarian state, such as the one depicted in the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, and suggesting that a resort to fusion-based thermonuclear devices would solve that problem. Let's all try to be a little more charitable in our submissions to this newsgroup. A little moderation never hurt anybody.