[net.religion] tough issues have many sides

merrill@rex.DEC (11/29/84)

>From:	decwrl::"decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!rohn"
>Subject: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment

>Yet another appeal.  Please get the #*%&$ abortion articles OUT OF
                                      ^^^^^
YOU are not showing a lot of "courtesy" with this flame.

>ALL NEWSGROUPS EXCEPT NET.ABORTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHO are YOU to lay down the categorical imperitives?

>The newsgroup was created to keep abortion articles out of other
>newsgroups.  Please recall the suggestions for net courtesy.  The
>discussion of abortion doesn't belong anywhere other than net.abortion.

I disagree because this (abortion) is a moral, ethical, sociological,
and very IMPORTANT issue of our time. 

I do dislike seeing multiple postings -- it is usually the mark of a "flamer".

Therefore let us take care to make comments that are appropos to a particular
news group and put them there.  My suggestion is
     religious doctrine about abortion: net.religion
     should the state/fed govt be involved: net.politics
     when should abortion be done (trimester): net.abortion, net.medical
     where to find one: net.abortion
     psysiological consequeces: net.medical


Rick Merrill

		[All ionoclasts are wrong, including this one.]

chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) (12/01/84)

In article <84@decwrl.UUCP> merrill@rex.DEC writes:
>>Yet another appeal.  Please get the #*%&$ abortion articles OUT OF
>                                      ^^^^^
>YOU are not showing a lot of "courtesy" with this flame.

Courtesy hasn't worked, so why not?

>>ALL NEWSGROUPS EXCEPT NET.ABORTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>WHO are YOU to lay down the categorical imperitives?

Just one of the many who really don't want to hear ANYTHING about abortion.
That is why net.abortion was created, so that those that wanted to argue
about it could freely, while the rest of us unsubscribed.

>>The newsgroup was created to keep abortion articles out of other
>>newsgroups.  Please recall the suggestions for net courtesy.  The
>>discussion of abortion doesn't belong anywhere other than net.abortion.
>
>I disagree because this (abortion) is a moral, ethical, sociological,
>and very IMPORTANT issue of our time. 
It may very well be, but please be courteous enough to those of us that
don't want to be involved in this moral, ethical, sociological, and very
IMPORTANT issue and not shove it down our throat against our will. If we
wanted to discuss abortion, we'd subscribe to net.abortion. 

>I do dislike seeing multiple postings -- it is usually the mark of a "flamer".
Very true-- case in point the current abortion articles creeping out onto
the rest of the network....


>Therefore let us take care to make comments that are appropos to a particular
>news group and put them there.  My suggestion is
>     religious doctrine about abortion: net.religion
>     should the state/fed govt be involved: net.politics
>     when should abortion be done (trimester): net.abortion, net.medical
>     where to find one: net.abortion
>     psysiological consequeces: net.medical

Ah, by this rationale, since single people sometimes have sex and sometimes
get pregnant, all articles in net.singles with the words 'sex' or
'pregnancy' should be sent to net.abortion as well. Since religious people
sometimes have sex and sometimes get pregnant, all net.religion articles
with the words 'sex', 'pregnant' or 'God' (since God is teh divine force
that creates all new life, of course) should go to net.abortion as well.
Since hackers sometimes have sex (when the computer goes down) then
everything in net.unix-wizards should go to net.abortion. I could go on,
but i think I've made my point.

Just because YOU think it is important doesn't mean everyone has to. Keep
the abortion discussions where they belong-- net.abortion. If we are
interested, we'll join you. If we aren't interested, you didn't want to
bother us anyway...

chuq
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rsk@stat-l (Rich Kulawiec) (12/01/84)

	In reference to merrill@rec.DEC's article about multiple
newsgroups, in particular this statement:

> WHO are YOU to lay down the categorical imperitives?

	I would like to respond with some questions of my own:

	1. Who the hell are you?
	2. Are you incapable of reading the periodic postings in net.news.group
showing the purpose of each newgroup, or do you just ignore them?
	3. Do you think perhaps you should reconsider the incorrect
statments you made in your previous article, and try again?

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