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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
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Posted: Fri Jul 22 12:57:52 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 17:45:35 EDT
Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto
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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.