On 13-Apr-10 03:23, Dan Mitchell wrote:
From: John Palcewski<palcewski@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12 April 2010 12:27:06 GMT+01:00
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: GOOD TASTE (Edit)
Everyone on the planet has his/her own ideas as to what constitutes good taste, decency, and modesty. The question that you are evading is, what, exactly, makes you think YOUR highly personal concepts are the ones that ought to be imposed on others, especially here?
I see these concepts as being self-evident, like honesty and duty.
"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island
are the laws of nature." (Theodotus, in George Bernard Shaw's _Caesar
and Cleopatra_).
And from my point of view all of you guys are trying to impose your liberal concepts on me. I feel like a "voice crying in the wilderness" - but I'll be back.
Or to put it slightly differently, these things look different to
different people. Christian sects don't agree on them. The bible
itself took about a thousand years to bash out, and even now there is
disagreement about translation and interpretation (and some of the more,
pardon me, loony Chrstians are rejecting the whole concept of
translation, essentially saying it's the KJV that's the word of god, so
throwing out the first 1600 years of work on it). Wars have been fought
over such things.
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