On 2014-08-12 at 16:23, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> It's impossible to go anywhere "without >> any risk" of being offended, if actual communication is taking place. > > Do you mean that if somebody is talking about something, then he'll most > probably offense at least someone from the audience? Well, probably, > yes.
No. But there is some risk that somebody gets offended by a good-faith effort of communicating some idea. And if the listener is in bad faith and looking for an excuse to be offended, then the risk rapidly goes up. > But you have completely stripped what I was talking all about: > “marvelous sexual technique”. I was just saying that somebody who > would be offensed by such topics should not have to fear hearing some of > that at GHM, or that at least s⋅he can ask for that to stop. "Fear of hearing" is an interesting concept. In any case, your imaginary person who wants to live in a censored world can rest assured; she will not hear graphic presentations of sexual techniques at the GHM, at least from me. I hereby solemnly promise not to (intentionally) be an ass. Happy? In practice I guess I'll behave more or less exactly like I would have without the policy. Best regards. For real, even if I still think you're wrong. -- Luca Saiu http://ageinghacker.net * GNU epsilon: http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon * Vaucanson: http://vaucanson-project.org * Marionnet: http://marionnet.org
