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Re: Irony
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de (Kai Henningsen)
- Cc: rms at gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 01 Dec 2002 10:10:35 -0200
- Subject: Re: Irony
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <E18Hmge-0002BD-00@fencepost.gnu.org><8apUjub1w-B@khms.westfalen.de>
On Nov 30, 2002, kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) wrote:
> As for "movements", AFAICT they are also the same except for a
> handful of individuals who, for some silly reason or another, insist
> that the one they're in is only connected with one of the names.
If you find morals and economics to be silly reasons, well, then you
may have got it right :-)
Ignoring the motivations behind movements could lead you to equate
those who approve of abortion when it can save the life of a poor
mother with those who approve of abortion on poor mothers because this
helps prevent the reduction of the average per-capita income.
> (Note that I'm not against the name per se, but against the
> insistence on it - anything else would be silly for someone in
> Debian, after all.)
So if you had a son and named him Kai, Jr., but the kids on his school
would insist on calling him of some alias you found inappropriate,
wouldn't you insist that the teachers asked the kids to call him Kai
until they stop using the inappropriate alias?
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