From: MAX                 
To: ALL                 
Subject: Stuff          
Date & Time: 08/08/90 15:52:05
Message Number  7436

Well, I now have 400 messages to go through offline!  I'll respond to a
few of them individually later, I suspect, but I can't help but make one
or two comments right now.
 
At the risk of setting off Angel's censorship alarms, if this was on the
Den instead of A/R, this message would be a warning to both Black Magic
and the Specialist.  You two are descending into ad hominem attacks on
other users, and that's the one sort of message I would NEVER tolerate
on my own board -- and, yes, would delete.  You could disagree with me
or anyone else and attack their arguments visciously, but when you told
another user to "f*** off" that crosses my personal boundaries of what
can and can't be said.  Personally, I think both Magic's message to the
Specialist and his message to AJ should be grounds for dropping the
entire thread (or pushing it back on topic, at least), or dropping their
accounts.  Luckily for those concerned, this isn't the Den, of course.
(If someone wants to accuse me of being "intolerant" because of this
attitude, fine.  As Bryon Dayton said, "the one thing I'm really
intolerant of is stupidity.")
 
Specialist, you're beginning to rant again.  As I think I said a while
ago, the issue for most of us isn't the morality of homosexuality, but
whether or not it is right to abuse someone on the grounds of their
sexual preference.  You believe that it is, and so far don't seem to
have defended it any further than saying "It's sick and if you don't
agree with me, you're blind."  Incidentally, this is much the same
reasoning that led to the rise of Nazi Germany: Jews are evil and if you
don't agree with that statement, you're blind to the real truth, no
matter what evidence you present to the contrary.
   The ratio of people I like to people I don't like appears to be
relatively consistent among heterosexuals and homo/bi people.  If I like
someone, I don't care who they sleep with, and if I don't like them,
it's not based on who they sleep with.  It's a shame you don't see this.