Re: [xml-dev] URIs harmful (was RE: [xml-dev] Article: Keeping pace

Uche Ogbuji scripsit:

> URIs are every bit as harmful as names.  And names are indeed very harmful.  
> Of course I bring a particular ethnic sensibility to the numen of names, but I 
> think that even the Western philosophical canon bears out what less sophist 
> cultures insist on more directly :-)

My ancestors were about as western as Europeans get, and they used
names to induce malefactors to commit suicide.

	Sticks and stones may break my bones,
	But *names* can really mess me up.

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