Re: netiquette and freedoms (was Re: NAIS)

"J.C." <jcsplace@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:vBKDf.419490$Es3.117065@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> "Sheldon Harper" <sharper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Xns975C56ECBC8A1sheldharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>> "J.C." <jcsplace@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:nRJDf.340121$pW2.39818
>> @fe04.news.easynews.com:

>> snip

>> JC, you would do well to get a grip on yourself. This posting had
>> 2110 lines of mostly blather. The one before it had 227 and the
>> one following 223.

>> If you can't make your point in 50 lines or less of new text it just
>> isn't a point worth making.

>> We're living in a world where the ideal is to permit individuals to
>> make all the important decisions. We're living in a world which
>> consistently proves that that's not a particularly good idea. Where
>> a "freedom" to which you seem to believe you're entitled is likely to
>> deal me a prolonged and miserable death then just kiss that "freedom"
>> goodbye. If the situation were reversed, I wouldn't shed a tear over
>> it, nor do I now.

> You could exercise that freedom and hit that "block sender" button and
> your problem would disappear. Neat huh?

Thanks for demonstrating so quickly and so nicely the reason people like
you cannot be trusted to make decisions important to the public at large.
You can't restrain yourself on usenet, you won't restrain yourself when
it comes to anything resembling the slightest inconvenience.

To follow your line of reasoning, people who insist on curtailing your
"freedom" to do with livestock as you wish should, instead, "block
sender" by not eating meat.

> Yeah, right. And just think, if you own a pet, everything about you gets
> to be protected by Conagra, Cargill and ADM under the NAIS rules.

<burp>

> Thousands of credit card numbers stolen from gov't. website

snip <OT blather>


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