At 7:07 PM -0700 7/18/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
Filtering is not "wrong," Cerridwyn, it is a rational response to garbage being spewed constantly. I filter lots of items. I read "Scientific American" and "The Economist" because they filter (or "censor," in the sense some are objecting to here) nonsense about "queer rights" and "peircing fashions," to name but a few things I have no interest in hearing about.
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I think of AIDS as "evolution in action." Retroviruses which have existed for millenia now find new vectors for spreading in our population. I cry no tears for those dying of AIDS, and work to reduce to tax dollars spent on such things as "AIDS research." Let those who introduced the new vector pay for the research.
Pretty good summary of one position. I'd add that in addition, some groups you mention blackmail society by being loud and in your face, and prey on others' fear of being thought politically incorrect, to gain amounts of public treasure and air time vastly disproportionate to their needs or their problem in the heirarchy of needs and problems facing society. Putting it a bit more directly, gays are a small percentage of society but many are constantly demanding air time, infiltrating the media to create exposure vastly disproportionate to their numbers, and demanding public funds per capita way in excess of what the poor, the heart-disease or cancer-ridden, or the heterosexuals get for _their_ needs. In their latest attempt at public blackmail they're trying to get the nation to agree that we should provide incentives for homosexual marriages (the marriage benefits of Federal law are incentives to behavior society wants to encourage, not an inherent "right" of marriage). David