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.
