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"I wonder what stops amateur radio operators from telling eachother things like 'Dude! You're a total jerk-off!'" "They have to be licensed." "Yeah, I know that. But I can't imagine that they actually have it written down in their manuals that operators shouldn't use foul language." "Why not?" "I don't know. I just find the idea of institutionalized morality repugnant. I think the community of users that use a service or technology should be free to determine their own standards of conduct..." "So you think that if a rule is written down then it's bad?" "What? No! That's ludicrous. I just hate the idea of institutionalized censorship!" "I know this just makes me evil, but I disagree!" "Why do you do that? Why do things have to be so black and white? Why can't we just disagree?" "Because that's how you see the world; people agree with you and you respect them, or they disagree with you and you think they're evil." |