In article , "Clint" rattlehead at
computron dot net writes:


If a consumer whines and complains that he should
be allowed to purchase whatever media type that he
feels is to his likeing, for whatever reason he states,
he will of course be labeled as lazy, stupid, dumb,
and wanting to just have things given to him for free.

After all, it all starts with basics.

/reductio ad absurdum

Clint:

Yup, you've reduced your argument to the level of the absurd, all
right! Unfortunately, it didn't prove or disprove anything with regard
to code testing requirements in the ARS.

Amateur radio operators have always dealt with the level of technology
available at their own particular slice in time. However, the one constant
has been the Morse/CW mode, which continues to be a practical,
effective, efficient, and universal mode of electronic communication
in spite of any and all other modes which have been invented in it's
wake. And, as always, radio amateurs are not able to exploit the
many benefits and advantages of the Morse/CW mode unless they
learn the Morse code. Code testing requirements have always been
the means of providing the incentive to do so; in their absence, we will
see a decline in the use of this mode in the fullness of time. This is
just plain 'ole reality. No tricks of logic will change it, either.

73 de Larry, K3LT