From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 13:18:37 MDT
> Hubert Mania wrote,
> > Frankly, I am surprised how many
> > puritans and preacher's daughters are present on this list
> > and who are ready to faint if someone uses more substantial
> > and hearty words without making an affected fuss about it.
Harvey Newstrom answered
> Frankly, I am surprised how many liars and hypocrites are present on this
> list who pretended to agree to follow the list rules when they joined and
> then later make it clear they have no intention of keeping their promise.
Obligation, yes, of course. Sometimes things change in the course of time,
sometimes thinking in extropian heads bends towards the event horizon of a
psychic black hole, suggesting to commit a genocide. At this event in space
time all rules break down, even the rules of the extropian list. At these
points I feel souvereign enough to attack somebody personally with words.
Anything else would be the behaviour of a hypocrite. I know that I violate
the rules but I tell you, if any executive board should exclude me from the
list because of that I would happily go and not bother you anymore.
Hey, R.B. talked about killing 10^8 people!
If no one else stops this inhumane thinking, if most of the answers (except
Damien's)
even take it serious, overread Robert Bradbury's outrageous statement or
dismiss it, not because they find it annoying but because of "the
ineffectiveness of nuking" which must be either a childish thoughtlessness,
again cold-bloodedly neglecting 10^8 dead people, or seems to suggest that
under different circumstances these posters would approve of nuking
countries like Afghanistan. Iraq and North Korea. (Watch the border line to
the south though. . . ooops, sorry, well a few hundred thousand South
Koreans are not really worth worrying about, are they? Any way you
look at it: a horrible example of depravity in seeking allegedly transhuman
answers for the fetish technological progress.
By the way, I *did not* send an appropriate ad hominem attack at all. Since
Friday I wrote four versions of a *real* AH attack, but was smart enough not
to send them, to spare you, R.B and me a desaster. So it ended up in my
friendly letter from which you quoted.
Yes, sometimes it is wiser to spit fire, poison, venom and yell aloud than
to remain polite.
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