From: wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon)
Subject: Re: ignore Lazlo Nibble's outbursts
Keywords: Lazlo Nibble outburst knee-jerk
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:21:51 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.022334.12712@en.ecn.purdue.edu> davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John M Davison) writes:
>
>        A word to alt.rave and rec.music.misc newcomers: Lazlo Nibble is, quite
>often, an incorrigible knee-jerk who looks for trouble where there isn't any
>and criticizes people for no reason other than to stir up a fight.  For
>example, he told me to "eat shit" after I had posted an article saying that
>Freddie Mercury did deserve to die of AIDS if and only if he were aware that he
>was contracting AIDS (e.g. by willfully exposing himself to someone who was a
>known AIDS carrier).  My article, which was written with no particular morality
>in mind except for the assertion that if a human being performs an action for
>which a particular consequence is known to be likely, then that person can be
>said to deserve that consequence, was hastily read and consequently
>misinterpreted by Mr. Nibble as an attack on non-heterosexual practices --
>hence his knee-jerk "eat shit" response.

    A few points about Mr. Davidson's post:

    John,

	1.  Name calling and other garbage such as the above belongs in
	    alt.flame.  Give the rest of us credit for being intelligent
	    enough to develop our own opinions of people and their ideas.

	2.  Your post about Freddie Mercury was obnoxious.  Many of us
	    thought so but didn't feel the need to waste the bandwidth
	    of the net in telling you.

	    Freddie Mercury probably contracted HIV long before it was
	    considered, or even understood to be, a major health risk.
	    Thus, your assertions about responsibility for one's actions
 	    may or may no be valid.  In any case, wishing death on some-
   	    one is repugnant.  "Well John knew that a semi was pulling up
            fast in the left lane, but he changed lanes anyway.  He des-
     	    erved to die."

	3.  I've always found Lazlo to be helpful, polite, and very know-
	    ledgable, at least in private discussions conducted through
            Email.  Most of us react to others in a manner similar to
	    the way we've been treated...  Draw your own conclusions.

    BTW:  If anyone sees this post twice, my apologies.  I got bit by 
    John's little trick with the followups to misc.test.  I tried to 
    cancel the post.  Hope it worked.

    AND JOHN...  Only the most small minded of little twerps try to stifle
    discussion with the trick you used.  It was worthy of junior high school
    student, and I'm kicking myself over falling for it. 

    And now back to our regularly scheduled flame war.

        	        	       	       	       	       	       	       
                                                               - Max

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