Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor
On Monday 06 Dec 2004 06:54, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Stupidly enough, you have committed the idiotic mistake of
> assuming that everyone holds to your premises, that firstly,
> tolerating intolerance is somehow a good thing -- why should it be is
> beyond me.
Oh, this is about intolerance is it? I thought it was about whether a rather
pointless, possibly illegal to distribute bit of light entertainment that is
widely held to be offensive is really a worthy addition to the "universal
operating system".
> Secondly, that giving in to the intolerant bigots is not going
> to hurt Debian -- it is going to hurt its reputation in enlightened
> circles, people who are against narrow minded bigotry, and wo
> recognize art --- even if Bruno Bellamy is not on their own preferred
> artists of the century list.
Also porn fiends might be disappointed.
> Not permitting this package would be an indication that Debian
> has been overrun by art hating, narrow minded, right wing bigoted
> censors who are pursuing their agenda of imposing narrow minded so
> called morality on the rest of society.
Art hating? Narrow minded? WTF? This is an operating system not an art gallery
and no-one is suggesting censoring anyone.
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