Re: Moderated anthropology group?


"Cruise Director" <SeaFuncSpam@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>Sylvia Knörr wrote:
>> "Cruise Director" <SeaFuncSpam@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>> > Does such a beast exist somewhere? Or if not moderated, at least crank
>> > free?

>> In spite of all that racist crap, I would prefer an unmoderated forum
>> because it represents the whole variety of opinions. If an opinion is too
>> flawed, we can try to remodel it, that's better than just oppressing it.
If
>> you oppress what people are really thinking, their thoughts will pop up
>> somewhere else, sometimes in a more undesirable way.

>You must be young enough not to be tired of the same old Usenet debates
>yet. :-)

Or old enough to smile at them. :-)

Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. And
>even then, each generation must discover things anew for themselves.

Exactly. There will always be young folks who are unexperienced and have to
make mistakes. We can't get wise just by second hand informations.

>Actually, what really baffles me is how old some people can get and
>still hold on to their opinions mostly unchanged. I guess there's a
>lot of variance in mental flexibility, and it must be to some degree
>determined by environment. So then you ask, what determines the
>environment, and then one starts thinking about the history of
>agriculture.... the range of human misery on the Earth is profound.

What's your point?

>Cheers,
>Brandon Van Every
>20% of the world is real.
>80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.

The problem is to always tell the real things from the gobbledygook. :-)


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