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_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_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.
>
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Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 01:31:35 BST