On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:26:57 -0700 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Jens Ropers wrote:
- You suspect that people dislike you and that they do
so because
they somehow don't want you to have your own wikis. Lemme put it like this: Imagine some person travelled to the U.S. Now imagine
that it turns
out that that person didn't actually come as an
immigrant, and didn't
come to settle in and become a citizen of the country
but rather
proceeded to lecture the citizens of the U.S. that the
Declaration of
Independence and all these old handwritten papers were
fundamentally
unimportant because all men are not created equal and
actually,
certain people are per se inferior and not to be
trusted and it is ok
to rape and murder them and plunder their houses,
whereas others are
really not to be blamed of anything of any consequence,
whatever
happens and, err... actually...
To put this more starkly: Imagine visiting a country that has a known reputation for human rights violation. You meet with a small group of people and the conversation turns to the human rights situation where you have tremendous ideas about what THEY can do to improve things. Some of the group show a great deal of enthusiasm about your proposals. After the conversation ends you go to the airport and home. You later receive a message that one of the people in the group was an incognito agent for the government who subsequently arranged for the arrest and re-education of some of the group. What responsibility would you accept for that situation?
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