[Foundation-l] Interwiki Cooperation; NSK

Tue Nov 2 08:55:17 UTC 2004

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:26:57 -0700
 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Jens Ropers wrote:
> 
> > 3. You suspect that people dislike you and that they do
> so because 
> > they somehow don't want you to have your own wikis.
> > Lemme put it like this:
> > Imagine some person travelled to the U.S. Now imagine
> that it turns 
> > out that that person didn't actually come as an
> immigrant, and didn't 
> > come to settle in and become a citizen of the country
> but rather 
> > proceeded to lecture the citizens of the U.S. that the
> Declaration of 
> > Independence and all these old handwritten papers were
> fundamentally 
> > unimportant because all men are not created equal and
> actually, 
> > certain people are per se inferior and not to be
> trusted and it is ok 
> > to rape and murder them and plunder their houses,
> whereas others are 
> > really not to be blamed of anything of any consequence,
> whatever 
> > happens and, err... actually...
> 
> To put this more starkly:  Imagine visiting a country
> that has a known reputation for human rights violation.
>  You meet with a small group of people and the
> conversation turns to the human rights situation where
> you have tremendous ideas about what THEY can do to
> improve things.  Some of the group show a great deal of
> enthusiasm about your proposals.  After the conversation
> ends you go to the airport and home.  You later receive a
> message that one of the people in the group was an
> incognito agent for the government who subsequently
> arranged for the arrest and re-education of some of the
> group.  What responsibility would you accept for that
> situation?
> 
> Ec
> ok ok point taken
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