Xref: utzoo alt.flame:3228 news.misc:2121 soc.culture.jewish:8399 rec.humor.d:1204 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!labrea!agate!pasteur!ames!mailrus!uflorida!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!rwc102 From: RWC102@PSUVM (R. W. F. Clark) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc,soc.culture.jewish,rec.humor.d Subject: Legislating courtesy Message-ID: <63032RWC102@PSUVM> Date: 28 Nov 88 19:38:57 GMT Followup-To: news.misc,alt.flame Organization: The Insensate Void Lines: 20 Nancy Gould writes: [Referring to a wonderfully liberal and enlightened thing called censorship] >It's called politeness and consideration for the feelings of >others. Neither politeness nor consideration for the feelings of others can, or should, be legislated. One might think that referring to Brad Templeton as being the next worst thing to a Nazi is hardly polite or considerate. >No one person can be the authority. I think it just depends on how >many people complain. If the number is significant, maybe the joke >really is offensive. There is no law against being offensive. If there were, perhaps Makowsky, Richmond, and their ilk would have been imprisoned quite some time ago. fc