At 8:13 PM 7/29/96 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Perhaps the communitarians in the audience will have to fall back on disfellowship as the ultimate sanction (like the early Christians). They won't be able to apply any more advanced weaponry.
Just as the ultimate net sanction is excommunication (usually via the ISP, killfiles etc.), the ultimate communitarian sanction is shunning. Anything more takes force, and government reserves the use of force to itself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Cave ab homine unius lebri | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | [Beware the man of one | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | book] - Anonymous Latin | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA