[1484] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: What We May All Have Missed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Jones)
Tue Oct 7 23:01:19 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 22:49:24 -0400
From: Ray Jones <thouis@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20031007201049.02771008@hesiod>
Adam Champy <aschampy@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Some things are right and some are wrong - I know it sounds
> simplified, but it is that crystal clear.
Perhaps to you. I think that's an overly simplistic view. Life is
full of shades of grey. Even if it weren't, my right and wrong
doesn't match yours. I'm not going to let you define my moral code,
and I assume you won't let me know define yours. And neither of us
really wants the administrators involved in such decisions.
Joking about dearly held beliefs (about religion, morals, poor people,
race) is fine in my book, except in extreme situations (weddings and
funerals, mostly). You obviously think otherwise.
Even if it were bad to make jokes about poor people, it would be worse
to limit free expression of ideas at an academic institution. Even
incorrect or offensive ideas. Not that that's stopped it from
happening. If that's not crystal clear, then not much else is. It
should be tautological.
Ray Jones
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