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echo: askacop
to: TOM RIGHTMER
from: RD THOMPSON
date: 1998-01-15 20:01:00
subject: Censorship

Hi Tom, as you were just saying about Censorship....
TR>  RT> I think that we need to punish the abusers of information, not the
TR>  RT> producers of it.  If a book tells how to build a bomb and someone 
does
TR>  RT> it, killing other people, the guilty party is the one who abused the
TR>  RT> information by building the bomb and using it in an illegal manner.
TR> 
TR> I certainly understand this philosophy. There are a lot of sick
TR> people out there. Is there any logical reason why we should provide
TR> the information to fulfill their destructive fantasies?
Is there any reason why we should have people expecting to get
allowances for their behaviour and not accept personal responsibility
for their actions?
TR> For the same
TR> reason, should we provide the information for third world countries
TR> to build nuclear devices? Why should we provide the information to
TR> victimize ourselves? 
I don't think that we are the only nation or group of people that has
that information.
RD 
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