Message-Id: <mailto:199505120500.AAA07239@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 14:58:26 +1000 From: Jennifer Brasher <mailto:J.Brasher@INS.GU.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: Does one really need an AR-15 Rifle image? To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
On Thu, 11 May 1995, Mike Betz wrote:> On Thu, 11 May 1995, David Leonhard wrote:
>
> > DAVID TREIBS (mailto:davidtreibs@delphi.com) wrote:
> > : Did I err in requesting an AR-15 image?
> > : I don't think the message was offensive.
> >
> > I think you just stumbled into "the PC Zone". You know that strange place
> > where only correct thought is allowed or tolerated. I guess that now includes
> > us gun owners who are now equated with building bombers.
> > Pretty strange place for a bunch of people who are supposed to be in the
> > business of preservation and distribution of * INFORMATION*, don't you think?
>
> Point of fact, the original message, the message I am replying to, and my
> message are all "allowed and tolerated". If none of these messages were
> allowed or tolerated, none of these messages would have appeared or have
> been reacted to.>
> On a more personal note, my immediate reaction to DAVID TREIBS' original
> post was what is termed in David Leonhard's message as PC. In retospect I
> think Treibs was the victim of bad timing, weeks ago or months in the
> future his request would probably not generate the same reaction. I think
> the tone of Treibs' second post would indicate he is concerned about the
> reaction to his post.
>
> I have always found charges of PC a double-edged implement, is David
> Leonhard's definition of correct behavior (PC for short) that personal
> opinion is not allowed?
>
> Mike Betz
> mailto:betz@wln.com
>
Bravo Mike. In an age of increasing bureaucracy we have to resist the robotic responses of people totally anaesthetised to debate. Isn't that how the Third Reich gained such totalitarian powers!I do think it is an interesting conundrum. Carrying this back to the library school debate, - if someone asked you for instructions on how to make a bomb, stating an intention to use it, how would you react. It is a case of client's privacy versus public good.The person would have to be pretty crazy to let his intentions be known, so it is a rather unrealistic hypothesis! But truth is stranger than fiction.
Only last week I helped a client find gun images for an anti-gun theme in his art work. However I would be just as helpful to a client with pro-gun intentions despite my private views.That is our role. I do have a personal antipathy due to the fact that my cousin was shot dead in Canada in his music shop by a youth who wanted some guitars. He was only 27.
I didn't find any images of the particular make requested here.
Viva le debate.