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| From | Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> |
| Subject | Re: Objection Overruled |
| Date | Tue, 23 May 2006 10:22:01 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Tue, 23 May 2006, Michael Bennett wrote:
> It's not about suffering, and in the scheme of things,
> it really doesn't mean much, sure.
> But I find it instructive that everyone who says,
> 'just hit the delete key' fails to explain why these
> posts about Heather Mills's prosthetic leg were
> worthwhile to being with. Instead, the response is
> just to be dismissive. Couldn't folks just
> acknowledge that this was stupid and unnecessary?
I agree that the jokes were kind of stupid, and unnecessary. But so is a
lot of stuff on the net. There's a higher ratio of good stuff to crap here
than most places, but still--this is the sort of thing that should be
expected, no?
> --- Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 22 May 2006, Michael Bennett wrote:
> >
> > > That's not the point - I wasn't offended by the
> > jokes,
> > > so much as they were lame and not funny and didn't
> > > really add to the discussion of pop music. The
> > > solution of hitting the delete button doesn't
> > work, if
> > > the heading doesn't indicate a tasteless unfunny
> > joke
> > > is coming -- maybe this could be indicated in the
> > > subject line...
> >
> > Do we need to slap a warning label on everything
> > now? How much damage does
> > one *really* suffer by "having" to read an offensive
> > joke, let alone one
> > that's merely tasteless and unfunny and not about
> > pop music?
> >
> > Hence....the delete key. (I mean, I suppose we could
> > add [OT] to all
> > not-entirely-on-topic posts, but..)
> >
> >
>
>
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