Know it when you see it!

[Henry M]

While I think that "I know it when I see it" is scary when it comes 
to regulation, I didn't think that we were discussing censorship. I 
have yet to see any messages to this list supporting censorship.

If you don't know it when you see it, does that mean that it doesn't 
exist? Do I need to have a degree in physics to not hold my hand over 
a flame? Can you define art, or artistic quality? And yet I know it 
when I see it. Cultural relativism fall down when people are hurt. I 
know it when I see it. In spite of nilhilistic tendencies, I know 
love when I feel it.

On 20 Feb 97 at 19:29, doktor at primenet.com wrote:

> David Casseres writes:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >It boils down to this: there are no simple rules for what is
> >offensive and what isn't.  You have to actually think about it case
> >by case.  And on the internet, where you really don't know a lot
> >about who you are addressing, you have to think harder -- or if
> >that's too hard, then you have to take your lumps when people get
> >pissed off.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Exactly.  As Justice Stewart said of pornography, I can't define it,
> but I know it when I see it.
> 
> --Jimmy
> 
> 
> 

AsB4

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