Hello Nick,
"John Reimer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hello bearophile,
(And my name is bearophile, thank you).
Bye,
bearophile
I'm curious to know what "bearophile" means?
At first, I thought this alias was innocent enough, but after
visiting your much promoted site (promoted in the D community), I'm
not so sure what to think. I almost blanched at some of the content
and greatly regretted having visited it.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then I ask you consider
carefully the implications of some of your the creature fantasies
that you blog about. I'm surprised nobody else has complained. Or
maybe I should not be so surprised considering how politically
incorrect it is to challenge any ideology (or fantasy, for that
matter) even if it be so morally bankrupt so as to be considered
extreme indeceny and deviance by any number of different cultural
standards. The implications there as graphically displayed, while not
quite clear, are in the direction of bestiality... and if not, are
confused enough as to be presumptiously indifferent to any ethical
question about the horrible nature of it.
You are not doubt quite bright, as your other interests and
participation in D design have made clearly evident. But I just
can't believe such content is so closely linked to this group and the
D design process. I should think you would be embarrassed. I know I
am to have been subjected to it.
If you're shocked that I'm confronting you openly on this, the reason
lies squarely in the fact that you are boldly and unashamedly
displaying the material in a site that is linked here multiple times;
and I believe such boldness warrants the same measure of
confrontation in return. I hope you will change your mind about the
material. I'd wish both your mind on the matter and the material
would completely change, but I don't have the right to request much
more than that you disassociate it completely with your dealings with
D, so that those it concerns don't have to be involved in the
particulars of your fantasies whenever you link your site here.
Of course, it is equally people's right here to support you in your
freedom to display such things (while providing the links here). If
they do, however, it speaks volumes about peoples general apathy to
the downward spiral of society where increasingly indecent content is
seen as normal and harmless. This is a great shame, and I'd be sorry
to see that people don't care anymore.
For those that see this as flamebait, I request that you do not
respond. I just felt somebody had to say something about this. If
this is perceived to be libelous, I ask that you consider carefully
how damaging your content is to others, and the feelings it might
engender in its viewers. Thus, you should recognize that this post
merely elucidates on what's already evident.
-JJR
??...You can't seriously expect someone to censor their website just
because someone else on the web might have a problem with some of the
content.
It shows professional courtesy if nothing else. This is not a small thing,
Nick. If you see it as small, then we have nothing to discuss here. I don't
know if you actually examined the content, so you may or may not know what
you are talking about.
I have a problem with religous content (some of it even sickens me),
but I'm not going to give anyone on the net a big lecture just because
they stuck "Jesus" in their username or put drawings of churches and
bible quotes on their website.
A lot of religious content sickens me too... however, your analogy assumes
"offense" is the only issue here. We are talking about material that would
be considered extremely pornographic: censor is common etiquette for such
material. Bearophile warns near the material but the content remains visible.
I can spell it out for you in a private email if you wish.
Would you have all potentially offendable content removed from the
net? There wouldn't be any net left.
Oh please don't be so thick. Is it so much trouble to clean up a few pictures,
add a logon system for those that absolutely must see the dirt, or move programming
material to another blog/website?
-JJR
