"[P]rostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia ... should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.
Some rules might be called for when these acts directly affect other people's interests. For incest, contraception could be mandatory to avoid risk of inbreeding. For prostitution, a license should be required to ensure prostitutes get regular medical check-ups, and they should have training and support in insisting on use of condoms. This will be an advance in public health, compared with the situation today.
For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants)." http://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html
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Anonymous2012-07-14 2:30
I just got a baby girl and am kind of swamped,
I am sorry to hear it. Unless someone else can figure these things
out, I guess the release has to wait until you have time.
Congratulations, Stefan! I suggest that you spend any spare time with your
daughter as she will grow up before you know it. Emacs, on the other hand,
will still be around after she has left home.
It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it.
On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real
skill. That is really something to be proud of.
It helps more people, too.
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Anonymous2012-07-14 2:33
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>It doesn't take special talents to reproduce
>Stallman LOL!
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ChatMonitor-gs2012-07-14 2:36
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Stallman wins again!
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Anonymous2012-07-14 2:44
Is the human genome released under a FREE license?
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Anonymous2012-07-14 2:46
I refuse to eat shark fin, because collecting the fins is wiping out the sharks. For similar reasons I now have doubts about eating tuna sushi (although I love that).
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Official RMS 4chan account !MhMRSATORI2012-07-14 2:48
I do not use social networking sites. They are inherently inconvenient for me. That doesn't mean I think they are all unethical. Some are, some are not. Social networking sites raise their own set of ethical issues, completely different from the ethical issues of distributing software (free vs proprietary).
I have a Twitter account called rmspostcomments, but I never post on Twitter. I use it to log in on other sites to post comments on articles. Any other Twitter account that claims to be mine is an impostor.
The rms account on identi.ca repeats the political notes from this site, but I do not post on it directly.
Aside from those two, any account on a social networking site that says it is mine is an impostor.
I do not post on 4chan. Occasionally I have answered questions for interviews for 4chan, but any account there that says it is me is an impostor.
As for Facebook and Google+, I reject them on principle because they require people to give their "real names". I am proud to identify myself when stating my views; I can afford to do that because I am in a fairly safe position. There are people who rationally fear reprisals (from employers, gangsters, bullies, or the state) if they state their views. For their sake, let's reject any social networking site which insists on being told a user's real name.
Google+ says it will offer to hide the user's real name, but demands people prove an "established identity" or provide ID. I am suspicious of this requirement, but not sure what it will mean in practice.
Of course, Facebook is bad for many other reasons as well.
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Israel will not prosecute the orthodox rabbis who wrote that it is ok to kill Gentile children to stop them from growing up and killing Jews.
The author thinks that Israel's prohibition of "hate speech" is a good thing, and claims with regret that this decision has effectively made it null and void. I disagree, because that law is censorship. The wrong is not that religious speech is exempt from censorship, but that nonreligious speech is subject to censorship.
While I totally disagree with the views of these rabbis, just as I disagree with the cruel views of right-wing American politicians and Islamists, they all deserve the right to state their views.
Putting those views into practice is another matter. Israeli "settlers" are seizing land from Palestinians to expand their colony, and threatening the neighboring Palestinian children on the way to school.
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Anonymous2012-07-14 7:56
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Do we have e-nough free software, at our call?