Re: gnome-themes-list Digest, Vol 72, Issue 7

[Thiago Arroadie <yellowdropcase gmail com>]

"The way to free speech goes through voluntary silence."

This is one of the most wise phrases I've ever heard.

And it is right that in a place of pluralism we should give place to tolerance and understanding.

My initial point was that even that we all have the right to point the finger to someone and call him "murderer", we should not do it in a respectful environment. Because this act could give place to another and other manifestation of free speech that only generates rage and disrespect, what goes against the so called "respectful and pluralist" place, environment.

But hey, its a beautiful Friday, we should all enjoy it and exercise our respect and tolerance skills over the disrespect and intolerant people, don't you think?

I hope you all have a great day and a peaceful weekend.

Enjoy life.

Thiago

2010/6/11 יחזקאל <yystud gmail com>

Silvina, you (and I) believe in pluralism, but others do not. Since we believe in pluralism, we are not going to try to educate them.
one of the problems with pluralism is what you do if one of the notions you want to give place to, is not ready to recognize or give place to any other notion (or, is not pluralistic)? This causes great problems in politics, and it may definitely cause serious and painful arguments in any community that wishes to give place to different people holding different notions and opinions.
This is why in many governmental institutions political discussion and _expression_ are forbidden.
Also, I believe that the way to tolerance is through the ability to hold back your opinions and not express them, knowing that opinions are not so important as you want to believe they are. The way to free speech goes through voluntary silence.

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:57:38 -0700
From: Silvina de Brum <sdebrum gmail com>
To: carlos <cpenas warp es>
Cc: gnome-themes-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Very sad: a serial killer in art.gnome
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Hi:

I think that it should be the opposite, a place of respect in which include
all ways of thinking. By this I mean, whoever can use the image that they
want.

Cheers!

Silvina



On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:09 AM, carlos <cpenas warp es> wrote:

> Hello:
>
> Besides all the shit written in the original message, one thing is true,
> there's only one "political biased" background in the art.gnome site (as far
> as I browsed). The rest of the backgrounds cannot offend any ideological
> concern.
>
> I think that backgrounds in gnome should be neutral, or "gnome biased" but
> never use a political icon, good or bad.
>
> In this world is very easy to harrass someone only using a piece of cloth
> tinted with a bunch of colors. And molested people then to defend themselves
> trying to harass their suposed foes. These things should end with someone
> drawing parallelism between Hitler and the other side, well this time begins
> with, Is the fastest demonstration of the Godwin's law [0] I ever seen
> before.
>
> It happens all over the world, United States flag/eagle is a sign of pride
> for some people, an imperialist sign for some others and an invading foe for
> others. The palestinian / israel conflict is another good example. Even
> Dalai Lama, leader of the budhist religion, one of the most peaceful
> religions out there, is considered an evil agitator by the chinese govern.
>
> I think that art.gnome must remain clean of flags, political or religious
> heros / killers , religious signs and things like that, and also this list
> should be clean of political debate.
>
> Silvina de Brum wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>> [snip]
>>
>
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