From: azhar@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: The language on SCP
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:01:57 GMT
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

Ladies, gentlemen, Mr. Agarwal:

	   When humans are given unalieanable rights like life, liberty,
and the pursuit in happiness, very often they interpret that as
happiness of pursuit which threatens the liberty of life in their
surroundings.

	   I come in peace, and express a desire to carry out a civilized
discourse, if you shall allow me. The discussion started with Ms.
Merchant requesting you:
   >But for me, I would ask that *I* not be addressed as *Dear*.
   >Ms. Merchant

To which you, Mr. Agarwal, Sir, responded:
>That is ONE TRACK MIND !! Why do you get IDEAS from the word "DEAR" ?
> AAP YUHIN AGAR HUM SE MILTE RAHAIN DEKHIAN EK DIN PYAR HO JAYA
>GA.

	   When you are a shade more relaxed, you yourself, Sir, would
consider your first sentence as speculation, and your second as love
at first followup. I have no desire to pry into your love life and
perspective, but I approach you as a caring friend, who wants to warn
you that putting words into other people's mouth, and speculating
about their ideas, is indeed a futile cause. Ms. Merchant simply
expressed a preference not to be referred to as "Dear", and it hardly
had anything to with tracks, minds, ideas, words, aap, mein, and the
virtual reality. To read anything further into her statement, would
be getting your hopes a shade higher. These matters of your heart are
sensitive... be patient and persevering. 

	   Now, I shall not argue that Ms. Merchant has a RIGHT to
refrain you from calling her "dear", or that you have a right to call
her "dear". These "rights"-based moral/ethical system is rampant
hedonism which results in utilitarianism gone wild. That system
defines domains, yet does not specify where one individual (and
his/her rights) begin and the other (and his/her rights) end. If
someone punches my nose, who is to say that his fist was in the wrong
place or my nose had no *right* to be there in th first place.

	   A system based on mediation, balance, and equity is much
preferable (those who know understand which system I am referring to,
and those who don't will never know for they shall remain summiun,
ummiun, etc.). In that system, you would be encouraged to respond in a
considerate manner to Ms. Merchant's request.

	   Mr. Agarwal's case, is but an insignificant example, and the
point I am advocating has much wider scope. When humans are given
unalieanable rights like life, liberty, and the pursuit in happiness,
very often they interpret that as happiness of pursuit which threatens
the liberty of life in their surroundings.

	   So, I won't delve deeper into...

In article <VAGARWAL.93Jan22165145@dis9002.shearson.com> vagarwal@dis9002.shearson.com (Virendra Agarwal) writes:
>V. Agarwal

	   But take the time to change my .sig file to reflect my
perspective for all to see...

Salman [When humans are given unalieanable rights like 
        life, liberty, and the pursuit in happiness, very 
	   often they interpret that as happiness of pursuit which
	   threatens the liberty of life in their surroundings     ] Azhar

-- 
When humans are given unalieanable rights like life, liberty, and the
pursuit in happiness, very often they interpret that as happiness of
pursuit which threatens the liberty of life in their surroundings.
                                 --- D. Salman [Quintessential] Azhar  
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