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- From: mlloyd@westmark.Stanford.EDU (Mike Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: Feeling out of place
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.062815.22036@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov20.020654.10212@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 06:28:15 GMT
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- crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
- : J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
- : > crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
- : [...]
- : > >It *is* legal (more or less).
- : > Some things are, some aren't. Some people think some of the things that
- : > *are* legal, shouldn't be. To voice an opposing view is political.
- : I would prefer to regard it as a moral decision, rather than one of political
- : ideology.
-
- Whoa, you've lost me already! What are you calling a "political
- ideology" here? That i-word is a shade loaded, and not necessarily
- connected to my idea of what "political" means (in much the same way
- that dogmatism has little to do with Jesus, even if it does seem to
- taint several of his followers).
-
- I mean, surely legality itself is a political issue; to have purely
- apolitical views about it seems a nonsense. It seems sensible to me to
- use "political" to refer to any situation involving more than one
- person, since humans tend to introduce power (however subtly) into
- everything. This is particularly true of societies, and what they do
- and do not permit.
-
- I can't imagine what it means to have an apolitical opinion about the
- appropriatness of motss PDAing, for instance.
-
- puzzled hugs
- Mike
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