X-Message-Number: 24041 Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 04:52:19 -0700 (PDT) From: William O'Rights <> Subject: censored (The point of this exercise is to compile a reputation score, which is based on others' opinions of each poster's messages. The poster's own opinion is hardly relevant, especially since our problem posters are unlikely to recognize their own spamminess, or to admit it if they recognize it. Am I missing a key issue here?) I believe so, the larger issue is that if all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race, and indeed posterity as well as the existing generation, those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, we are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth, and if wrong, we lose,what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. Live Long and Well William Constitution O'Rights The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature and conquering death is the basic intelligence test in the physical universe. But it is not the strongest of the species that survives, it is not the smartest that survives, it is the one most adaptable to change. ===== William Constitution O'Rights The First Immortal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24041