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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish,net.religion
Subject: Re: Rev Bob
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 13:55:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 13:55:28 1984
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> 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