On 3/23/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:45:30 -0500, Kurt Maxwell
Weber
<kmw(a)armory.com> wrote:
> The harm is sixty pages of childish vandalism
promoted as a Good
> Thing. And yes, the last sentence is speculation, explicitly so.
How is that "harmful"?
It promotes the idea that we celebrate childish vandalism. What is
good about that, exactly?
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Actually, it promotes the idea that we are willing to recognize humor
where it lies -- note that your definition of most of it as childish
is inherently subjective -- I often find the humor of the people
around me 'childish'. Since they are more mature than I, I must assume
that it is a problem with me rather than them.
Remember that one oft cited complaint about bureaucracy is that it is humorless.
Sincerely,
Silas Snider
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