From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-04-15T15:47:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Who maintains ruby-talk?

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> wrote:

> On 2010-04-15, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
> liberty
> > than to those attending too small a degree of it.
> > --Thomas Jefferson
>
> Non-sequitur.  "Liberty" does not mean that anyone who wants can disrupt
> anything, or harass anyone, they want.  Decent moderation does not
> noticably
> impair liberty.
>
> More generally, a liberty which is useless has been effectively removed.
>
>
I think a better non sequitur is going from not wanting a moderator to being
an anarchist. But that's not the point anyway, I'm not talking about their
liberty, I'm talking about mine. I would rather have a few people spam a few
threads than have to censor my posts out of fear of moderation. You can say
moderation doesn't noticeably impair Liberty, but Jefferson also pointed out
that "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government
to gain ground. "

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