[PLUG-TALK] Shiavo case...

[glen e. p. ropella]

Are there no other outlets for your opinions on things like this?
I understand the need to talk about things, especially moral or 
ethical issues.  We all need outlets for our opinions and friends
(or enemies) with which to discuss the issues.... even if it's just
to rant drunkenly over pints of beer.

And, I certainly don't mind seeing posts like this on plug-talk.
They go right into an mbox file managed quite nicely by procmail
and wait for me to find reasons to avoid work.

But, my question to you, Michael, is whether or not you have other
outlets for your opinions?  If so, don't you get more satisfaction
posting them there? 

Personally, I get a real kick out of posting some rant in places like
plug-talk when they're related to linux in some obtuse way or if I
know there's someone like Jeme out there that needs baiting. [grin]
But, overall, plug-talk is not my main outlet for discussing moral
and ethical issues like the right-to-die.  I get much more satisfaction
out of discussing these issues with people in a forum for that purpose.

There's some discriminatory power that seems absent.  E.g. one goes to
political forums to discuss politics, one goes to ethics forums to
discuss ethics, one goes to physics forums to discuss physics, one
goes to rock concerts to hear rock music and dance clubs to ... uh,
to watch women dance, etc.

One is highly likely to be frustrated if one goes to rock concerts
to hear classical music, goes to physics forums to discuss ethics,
goes to political forums to discuss physics, etc.

Of course, the exception to this rule is "the evangelical".  Someone
who wants to trojan horse their (not "his", GLL ;-) ethical beliefs
might be well served by attending alot of rock concerts.  Or if you
want to propogate your theory of the aether but can't get any
face-time with mainstream physicists, you might hang out in an ethics
forum....

=><=><= "p0" == plug 0 <plug_0 at robinson-west.com> writes:

p0> Florida should enact a law that requires
p0> food and water to be provided in cases
p0> where there are no written instructions.
p0> It's barbaric the way Terry's husband is
p0> trying to come out and say, "she's not 
p0> in pain."  Just because she's in a coma,
p0> that doesn't mean she isn't feeling pain.

p0> For those who say, write a will.  What 
p0> gurantee is there that any will is going 
p0> to be followed?

p0> I for one hope there's a moral backlash
p0> against these court decisions.

p0> Laws and instructions written on paper are 
p0> meaningless when what you find in peoples' 
p0> hearts doesn't agree.  Congress gave the
p0> parents the power to try and move the case 
p0> to the Supreme Court, but the high court
p0> is showing a heart made of stone.

p0> I would like to see a consitutional
p0> prohibition on indefinte filibustering to
p0> stop voting on the President's Supreme
p0> Court nominees.  The Congress has a 
p0> constitutional duty to vote up or down and
p0> should do so within a reasonable time frame.
p0> If the high court were more conservative,
p0> this case would get heard in it.

p0>      --  Michael C. Robinson

p0> _______________________________________________
p0> PLUG-talk mailing list
p0> PLUG-talk at lists.pdxlinux.org
p0> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-talk

-- 
glen e. p. ropella              =><=                           Hail Eris!
H: 503.630.4505                              http://www.ropella.net/~gepr
M: 971.219.3846                               http://www.tempusdictum.com