On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:34:36PM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: > > > > > >>>As already written in -women, this is the point which saddens me the > > > > >>>most in this thread. I'm really disappointed by seeing most > > > > >>>contributors just not realize why this package, as proposed, is > > > > >>>likely to hurt the feelings of several women (probably not all, I > > > > >>>don't know) as well as, indirectly or not, some men. > > > > (And quite stunningly failing to realise that objecting to this > > package in this manner is equally offensive in the other direction, > > and probably more so. > > Please humour me and spell it out for me in small words. I am > presumably missing something stunningly obvious. I find the notion of introducing censorship in order to not 'hurt their feelings' to be morally repugnant. It has been proven endless times that once you start doing this, you can't stop. For any package, there is going to be some minority group that is offended by it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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