Re: Take back your Usenet experience by filtering off the following!
From: dtr (dtr_at_nospam.net)
Date: 09/06/04
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:02:34 GMT
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:48:28 GMT, Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net>
wrote:
>On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:12:58 GMT, dtr <dtr@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:55:49 GMT, Lady Chatterly <god@dev.null> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <2hcpj0l8i0m85togue7689mqduqb9bj4vk@4ax.com>,
>>>dtr <dtr@nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Loathing or being a destructive force and an affront to civility and being
>>>>civilized?
>>>
>>>I hear you are being accepted into an exclusive club cause they need someone to
>>>snub.
>>
>>Why is it little unthinking minds can't accept the fact that if they
>>wouldn't like their own behavior directed at themselves, that continuing to
>>behave in such a manner is uncivilized?
>>
>>Being civilized is treating other people as you yourself would like to be
>>treated -- and that includes accepting responsibility for your actions in
>>life. But it does not preclude that others should be forced out of
>>existence because ill behaved mongrels can't accept that their behavior is
>>uncivilized. Of course, then end result of incivility is just to kill that
>>which you can not control or wish to control, dominate or own. And THAT
>>is the ultimate in uncivilized behavior.
>
>Unfortunately treating others how you would like to be treated,
>doesn't always work. Imagine what the Marquis de Sade would have made
>of the golden rule: he liked being hurt so he could use it to justify
>hurting others. Most prosetylisers imagine that if they didn't already
>believe they would like to be converted.
>
>As Bernard Shaw wrote in Man and Superman, "Do not do unto others as
>you would have them do unto you: their tastes may not be the same".
Thinking in a larger box: Do Unto Others also means Live and Let Live,
which excludes others from harming anyone except themselves.
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