Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish,net.religion Subject: Re: Rev Bob Message-ID: <5394@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 13:55:28 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5394 Posted: Fri Oct 19 13:55:28 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 07:47:46 EDT References: <1579@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 22 > Again peer ridicule is exercise of free speech. Ignorant > and unkind as it can be it is part of the exercise of > free speech. Would you have the teachers or their > assistants patrolling the school yard searching for > those ridiculers (?) of their peers and punishing them ? As someone who recalls hours of misery in the schoolyard, being taunted by packs of repulsive and despicable brats, to whom I had made no overtures or initiated any contact with whatsoever, I vote YES! resoundingly. The primary duty of people to each other is to let each other alone. These vermin had not learned that; if it took pain to teach them that lesson, they should suffer that pain in order to learn it. It would have done my psyche a world of good to see these scum flogged for their behavior; the fact that they caused me misery and suffered not at all as a result has probably done quite a bit to my world-view and attitudes. (Sorry for sticking this into net.religion.jewish; since the item being followed up was only posted there, I felt that this had to also go there. Any future followups should probably go to net.religion only.) Will