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[Jordi Jané]

Hi,

Rick Moen wrote:

>>Well, ESR's always been kind of strange. He's one of those gun type who 
>>believes that gun ownership is the root of democracy. 
> 
> 
> Interesting that you brought gun-advocacy up, since it had _nothing_ to
> do with the exchange in question.  I notice that this non-sequitur
> quality is common in the flamage that follows Eric around, on the Net.
> 
> If Eric had asked my opinion about his draft, before sending, I'd have
> told him:
> 
> [...]
> 
> But I'd not have dragged in irrelevancies -- certainly not any
> difference I believed I had with him on politics.  That'd be just rude,
> not to mention a distraction from the subject.

To be fair, he draws some of that attention to himself very often. This
is a simple cut and paste of the heading of his weblog:

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Armed and Dangerous
Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life’s simple pleasures…

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

—Lazarus Long
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To me, having that in your weblog's heading is drawing attention to the
subject...

Personally, I do find his reflections on software interesting. But he
seems to be going out of his way to make remarks about guns just far too
often. Or far too often for me, anyway... O:)


Take care,
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