I think, the question is:  "Does a group belong to the person who
started it or to members and participants."

Belongs ==> Personal Property

Out of scope discussion:
I am doing my research as of why a person will go skeptical and they
would deleted their files from meetup, while most of them are being
indexed by google.


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:52 PM, dan <[address removed]> wrote:
> Alex, was?Lori?legally entitled to end the group in any way that she wanted,
> and?you are posing moral/ethical quetions about the way she handled it?? Is
> that the basis?of the?discussion?? Correct me if i am wrong, but it seems
> that you have created a false dichotomy between "brothers and sisters being
> forcefully separated," and your experiencing some extra hassle in going
> about re-organizing the group . . .
>
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> From: Alex <[address removed]>
> To: [address removed]
> Sent: Mon, November 30,[masked]:27:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [religion-31] Sorry for the what she has done to the group.
>
> You may wonder, why I, as a moderator, have approved the last message
> in the mailing list?? I think people, who label themselves as Free
> Thinkers, should have critical thinking.
>
> I want to ask two questions about the ownership:
>
> - If a family head decides to leave, does it mean all members should
> fell apart?? If parents break up, does it mean brothers and sisters
> should be separated forcefully?? If a founder of a nation is not happy
> with his creation, can he break the country apart?
>
> - Is human life a personal property? (Life is nothing else but duration/
> time)
>
> Criticisms/ discussions are welcome.
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Melissa Byers
> <[address removed]> wrote:
>> Alex,
>> Lori started the Free Thinkers group, and she has every right to close it
>> down when she wants to do so. ?If you want to start a Free Thinkers-type
>> group of your own, you are certainly entitled to do so. ?But to blame Lori
>> for shutting down HER group is just petty and wrong. ?Lori's group was all
>> about accepting others and taking responsibility for one's own viewpoints,
>> and if this is the way you are planning to run the new group, it should
>> have
>> no attachment to the former Free Thinkers group.
>> Melissa
>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Alex wrote:
>>
>> Dear members,
>>
>> I want to apologize for what the past organizer has done to the group. The
>> group was closed right before there was a meetup.
>>
>> I am fighting at meetup about it. Read more about it :
>> https://www.meetup...­
>>
>> I will send you details shortly.
>>
>> Alex
>>
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