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On 1/2/12 8:56 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

> But, hey, inertia. As long as we're trying to make this dude get rid
> of the offensive part, might as well get rid of the rest too. Why not
> make him get rid of everything he's written, too?

Because that's something that no one desires, nor is it the logical conclusion 
of anything that anyone has expressed here. Please don't invent strawmen.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco