[extropy-chat] MOTION: Harvey off the Board

Giu1i0 Pri5c0 pgptag at gmail.com
Mon Jun 7 19:04:35 UTC 2004


Well Samantha, I am sorry if this is your interpretation of things. At
some point it appeared that most participants in the wta-talk list
were not very keen of some particularly long session of
pseudo-political bitching of the type "Xs are jerks", were X is one or
another political view, so the decision was taken to move this
specific type of content to the wta-politics list.
I must say that I was not in favor of having a separate list and would
have preferred to keep everything on wta-talk but anyway.
I would not say that "WTA folks baiting and shunning all remotely
libertarian voices off into a separate mailing list". For example, I
have nothing at all against libertarians and, as a matter of fact, do
agree with libertarians on many points. It is true that at times I am
annoyed when libertarianism is pushed to (what I consider as)
unreasonable extremes, but then I am also annoyed when socialism is
pushed to (what I consider as) unreasonable extremes, and I am very
annoyed with "Xs are jerks" non-arguments from both sides. This, I
believe, is the view of most (of course not all) regular participants
in wta-talk.

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 00:09:42 -0700, Samantha Atkins
<samantha at objectent.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been on the list.  After WTA folks baiting and shunning all
> remotely libertarian voices off into a separate mailing list I got
> disgusted and quit participating.   This is not a "World Transhumanist
> Association" except in name only.
> 
> - s



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