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[Mark Curtis <merkinman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's a slippery slope, any number of people can be offended by any number of things. Try to please them all and you'll find the USC severely limiting in its selection.

Also, aside from the name, there is nothing pornographic about Pornview, it's simply an image viewer.
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 21:52:30 -0400
From: openmysourcecode@xxxxxxxxx
To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Religion in the Ubuntu namespace

I agree. And really its right that we should stick to the topic at hand. Its easy to get caught up in discussions like this but if I were to bring some insight to the table, i'd say that the last email was right about those concepts being religious traditions and not the teachings of christianity, the whole reason we should seek to prevent things like pornview from being featured items is the same reason we don't let our 8 year olds, at least most of us don't, see an R rated movie... it has nothing to do with "censorship" or being a nanny over free adults, its just about being appropriate for all audiences (rated G as it were).

On May 12, 2012 10:05 AM, "Josh Strawbridge" <holyknightjoshua@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"my grandmother was taught that everything nice was evil. Music, for instance. And I'm a musician. And cards. I'm a card artist. And games. I'm a pool player. Mostly everything I love, she was taught, is evil."


i can't really speak for anything you didn't mention but i don't see the problem with anything that you did mention.i've played pool and poker on church trips. they're just games and they're not evil. if you meant tarot cards i don't know if i'd consider them evil but it's one of those things that other people might. they do have some nice art on some of them though. i very much like music. i don't always like some of the things people are singing or the sound of some of it though.


i'm not trying to say your grandmother was wrong for her beliefs just that the parts you mentioned aren't inherently Christian just because she was. to be honest it seems more like dogma that got built up for one reason or another over time.  i've seen some parents that didn't let their kids watch the powerpuff girls, pokemon, or other things because of one thing or another.  the same kind of crap that had people saying that you shouldn't read harry potter or play/read dungeons and dragons games/books and that whole Halloween is evil thing that goes on somewhere every year. i don't know i think some people just get so wrapped up in "being christian" that they miss the point entirely.


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