On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:13:43PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 2009/3/14 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Hm... I don't see a valid reasoning there. > > I'm delibrately not trying to make a statement as to validity of the > reasoning about the objection. In fact, I might even question the idea > that "reasoning" is ever a part of an "emotional" response. I'm > pointing this out only because this is the first instance that I know > of where this sort of emotional response on the grounds of cultural > sensitivity has arisen in the work your group is doing. > > I certainly don't have the same emotional response. My emotion > response is more of fear of the ominous,wheeling, flock of birds in > the image. I haven't brought it up as a point of contention because > I'm fully self-aware that most people don't perceive birds as the > danger to humanity that they really are....yet. Such pastoral views > of flocking birds in the sky only serves to lessen our natural fear of > these foul, foul descendent of the dinosaurs...disarming us of our > ability to react when they final swoop down en masse to get us. But I > digress... OK, thanks for that digression, Tippi. ;-) > We can't necessarily reason with irrational emotional responses. You > might have to talk more about what that structure is meant to convey > emotionally...if its worth talking about at all. I'm not sure it is -- but the conveyance as far as I know is simply to acknowledge the heritage of the "Leonidas" name. Any other inference is probably a stretch. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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