X-Message-Number: 1610 Date: 14 Jan 93 06:19:31 EST From: Paul Wakfer <> Subject: CRYONICS Ideas a threat? I am, once again, astonished that so many particpants in CRYONET do not know the meaning of the word "threat". "Threat" does *not* mean the same as "powerful" or "dangerous". An idea is *not* equivalent to its implementation or to the harm that any person does with it. Ideas do *not* cause harm, people do! Believing that ideas cause harm and are a threat is only one step removed from advocating censorship, book-burning and other restrictions of free speech. By immediately recognizing and appologizing for his error, Dave Pizer has improved a notch in my evaluation. By continuing to misunderstand the fundamentals of free speech (eg. equating the ideas of communism and nazism - which can be filtered out by human choice before being implemented and causing harm, with the bubonic plague - which is directly, causally responsible for human deaths), Keith Henson sinks farther below the line of acceptability. Paul Wakfer Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1610