8 Jul
2001
8 Jul
'01
1:31 a.m.
YOU're the one who doesn't like the laws, so YOU go! I obey the laws. I simply
expect others to do that too.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Celebration (intended to be offensive, possible humor)
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
laws aren't perfect. Laws are the minimal
conduct needed from every
citizen in order to have a liveable society. If you don't care to
live in a society with a given set of laws, you should leave. If
Then fucking GO already, since you obviously don't like the existing laws
here in the US!!!
behavior within a given society. If you
don't want to adhere to those
minimae, then you should be ejaculated from the society. Surely
So we would get to go out in a stream of semen with a smile on our face?
there's someplace that will tolerate your
behavior, but others, those
willing to behave within the legal standards, shouldn't have to
tolerate your antisocial and extralegal behavior.
I get it, this is some kind of joke, right? "Dick" is really just a bot
that spews forth obnoxious and inflammatory rhetoric just so the list will
always go wildly off-topic. Ok, who subscribed him?
If you don't like a law, then set about to
change it within the
system. In the meantime, however, you must still behave as a law
abiding citizen. Part of effecting change involves work and
suffering, the rest is waiting.
Yeah, I'll go about my merry way while you try to get the law changed so
that the next time I use a naughty word in an e-mail message I'll be put
to death.
You enjoy the freedoms you enjoy only because
others, less selfish
than you repress their urge to harm you whenever your extralegal
behavior irritates them. If you KNEW for certain that someone else
would take it upon himself to punish you by some equally illegal act,
and any illegal act is equally illegal, you might not behave as you
do.
Ok, I waited to get sober before commenting on this part, but it still
doesn't make any sense.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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