At Mon, 1 Mar 1999 02:32:01 -0500, you wrote:
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>I've lately thought that on Mon, 01 Mar 1999, Timothy Bates wrote:
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>>More good news, the people advertising for help killing doctors providing
>>abortions have been nailed (Nuremberg Files was the site that posted the
>>names, phone numbers, and home addresses of abortion doctors, and then
>>struck out their names as they were murdered one by one).
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>>What is the extropian position on these two? We no doubt all agree about
>>free crypto, and certainly I am glad the Nuremberg decision happened this
>>way. They are perfect example of first-use force hiding behind free speech.
>>These anti own-body control memes retard the rate at which we get to
>>transcend ourselves
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>They weren't using force at all, IIUC, first or otherwise. While it is
>true that some of the people they listed were killed, I think it extremely
>unlikely that the killers did it *because* they saw this on the internet
>(if they even did).
>I think it is good that they stopped, but bad that they *were* stopped,
>if you get my meaning. :( Unless specified otherwise in individual
>contract, I'd want *any* free speech allowed, even "Fire!" in a crowded
>theater.. Of course, this would always be covered by contract..
>--
>Wolfkin.
>wolfkin@freedomspace.net | Libertarian webhost? www.freedomspace.net
>On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man;
>The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.-- Johnny Clegg.
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher