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Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)



This one time, at band camp, Jeff Licquia wrote:
>Remember the point about legislating the value of pi?  As you yourself
>note, it's dangerous when people confuse moral, legal, and technical
>questions.  It's just as much of a mistake to resolve a technical
>question via moral means as it is to resolve technical questions via
>legal/moral means.

Uh, tautology.  Did you mean "It's just as much of a mistake to resolve a
technical question via moral means as it is to resolve a moral question by
technical means"?

In which case, isn't debian-sanitise itself a technical solution to a moral
problem?

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jaq@spacepants.org                           http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg
 
Do you guys know what you're doing, or are you just hacking?



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