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Article #283Re: Charges against John Hofsess of Right to Die group
From: Edward Gerk
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:00
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wrightd@magic.mb.ca (David C. Wright) wrote: >Now, if you are talking about whether or not Hofsess is telling the truth, >the same question comes to bear. If he had, on his web-site, the >information on how to use the plastic bag, that would assuredly be >providing information on their use. However, by providing information on >how to get a pamphlet that tells people how to use one, is he actually >providing information about plastic bags? If you regard the first level of >indirection as information, yes. However, by the same criterion, *you* >have mentioned something about plastic bags, and are as guilty as he whom >you seek to condemn. If, on the other hand, you regard information about >plastic bags as an adjunct to suicide as actually describing how they are >used, then Hofsess is telling the truth. You're dead meat. If you are >telling the truth and Hofsess is lying, then you are as guilty as he is. >If you are innocent, then Hofsess is innocent. You're in a no-win >situation here. If your original point is true, then you are vindicated, >by all means, but equally culpable. Mr. Hofsess advertised the material on plastic bags to be also available on-line, via Adobe software. You would be given a password in order to access the files. So he was offering instructions on-line. As to your other statements, it was Mr. Hofsess who stated that he did not have any mention of plastic bags on his web site. I have never stated that I have never mentioend plastic bags. You're wrong again! >Bad hair? Really! Do *you* have bad hair? Can there *be* "bad hair"? >What a ridiculous concept! What has your hair done to you lately, Ted, and >why do you hate it so? Did your mother take offense at your hair? Did >your classmates ridicule your hair? Do you have Bill Gates' hair? I feel your pain about losing again. Ted
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,c6f7ef65d78f5d6c X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 111fed,c6f7ef65d78f5d6c X-Google-Attributes: gid111fed,public X-Google-Thread: 113d91,c6f7ef65d78f5d6c X-Google-Attributes: gid113d91,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,c6f7ef65d78f5d6c X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d3,c6f7ef65d78f5d6c X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d3,public From: egerk@awinc.com (Edward Gerk) Subject: Re: Charges against John Hofsess of Right to Die group Date: 1996/11/04 Message-ID: <55l3f7$sgf@noc.van.hookup.net> X-Deja-AN: 194359812 references: <53gl38$pg@noc.van.hookup.net> <53lspq$bvu@noc.van.hookup.net> <5463ke$p17@binky.axionet.com> <I0Yay0zpkboQ091yn@magic.mb.ca> <54ga5m$su6@noc.van.hookup.net> <QMEcy0zpkTBP091yn@magic.mb.ca> <553fqj$ehq@noc.van.hookup.net> <5Hiey0zpkDLX091yn@magic.mb.ca> organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Vancouver, BC, CANADA newsgroups: talk.euthanasia,bc.politics,bc.general,ont.general,soc.culture.canada