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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <6c87f401-15c5-4f87-89a7-97bda5fa183e@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Petition Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:13:13 -0700 (PDT) References: <792b3fe2-f375-446e-9e13-3282d9d7334c@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>  <2956a6e0-1149-4111-8153-10f5fe1f7aea@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>      <2dbee540-c94c-49f3-b95a-f42cf03b56f0@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> Lines: 45 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.217.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213128793 11396 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2008 20:13:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.217.66; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3359 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:652579

On Jun 10, 8:08=A0am, spindrift  wrote: > On Jun 9, 11:08=A0pm, TheMgt  wrote: > > > > > Ben C wrote: > > > On 2008-06-09, TheMgt  wrote: > > >> Ben C wrote: > > >>> On 2008-06-09, Tony B  wrote: > > >>>> Nuxx Bar wrote: > > >>>>> =A0you obviously have no respect for the dead. =A0 > > >>>> It's an interesting concept, respect for the dead.. how did it ever= come > > >>>> about? > > >>> The first recorded use is by Diogenes Laertius, circa 300AD, but he > > >>> attributes it to Chilon (6th century BC). Look up "de mortuis nil ni= si > > >>> bonum" on Wikipedia (which is Latin for "don't [say] anything about = dead > > >>> people unless it's good"). > > > >>>> I mean, if someone is unworthy of respect during their time alive, > > >>>> should they garner respect for simply for being dead? > > >>> Not really, but it can sometimes be unfair to criticize people who > > >>> aren't there to defend themselves. > > >> Fair enough if they're just out of the room but why would that apply = to > > >> people who are dead? > > > > Well if they're dead they can't defend themselves even if they are in > > > the room. > > > If they're dead then they don't need to defend themselves., they no > > longer exist. They'll never hear anything anyone says about them. > > I suspect the original reason for not speaking ill of the dead was to > > avoid having their vengeful ghost come and bother you.- Hide quoted text= - > > > - Show quoted text - > > The ghost of Paul Smith would rattle chains at the end of your bed and > insist on showing you some pretty coloured graphs he's drawn that > prove that speed cameras cause cancer.

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