On 4/16/05, Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com> wrote:
Ray Saintonge said:
I prefer a
Dostoevskian revolutionary who will hesitate to throw a bomb when he
realizes that it would harm others beyond his intended victim.
All hail to Fyodor, but really what harm can be caused by a good bit
of ridicule? Are we simply to modestly avert our gaze when the king
is so keen to display his march brazenly down the street insisting
that we pay due deference to his kingly robes? To fail to point out
that he appears to be stark bollock naked would be a gross failure of
citizenship.
What harm can be cause by personal attacks, which we have a policy
against?
We're not going to get anywhere if you insist on lumping attacks on ideas
alongside attacks on persons.