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- From: steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny)
- Newsgroups: alt.california
- Subject: Re: relocation
- Message-ID: <173@steiny.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 08:52:21 GMT
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- mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm) writes:
-
- >Then all this discussion, & heavy-weyt philosophical firepower
- >brot to bear on it, is nothing more than "Yes it is -- No it ain't".
- >You admit yourself that categories "can be" useful & you're quite
- >willing to use them yourself -- "trained pigeons" -- but you
- >don't seem to like it too much when someone else uses them,
- >who happens to oppose your political views.
-
- No way! It is not against my political views to call Bush a
- fascist. It is against my use of language views. It seems to me like
- what would be typically called "knee jerk" and it is very much the same
- as a trained pigeon. So what if he is anyway, since he does not do
- any of the things fascists normally do, what good is it for me to know
- that no matter what my political orientation?
-
- An analogy is useful insofar as it allows us to make predictions.
- It is pretty easy for me to guess what your response would be to the
- comment "Dan Quayle really had a lot on the ball." So an anlogy to
- a trained pigeon is not too bad. Trained pigeons do not have a lot of
- variation in their behavior. However, from what I know of fascists,
- I have not seen Bush exhibit the actions that would make him analogous
- to Musollini.
-
- -don
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