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- From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
- Subject: Re: Is it OK to be stupid?
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:35:26 GMT
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- Tagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva) writes:
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- >9212.22 e.v.
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-
- >Sean Eustis wrote:
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- >Just in case you're wondering, I believe the current term is
- >Developmentally Disabled.
-
-
- >Response:
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- >Nah, that is for people with physiological (or brain impaired) disfunctions.
- >(i.e. the mentally handicapped).
-
- >What is being talked about here are people who are the run-of-the-mill
- >Joe that is just to asleep to notice their own brainpan is exposed.
- >Do we wire him up and give him shock therapy or put him to bed with
- >a bottle??
-
-
- >Sean:
-
- >Answer, because it is garunteed not only by the bill of rights, but also
- >by a secondary nature of humans to look out for/U B~ each other.
- >The reason that the elite don't crush the weak is because they are
- >neccessarry to provide a rescource of workers that make the products that
- >the masses buy that makes a profit, that trickles down to the masses and
- >then again back up to the elite.
- >It's real complicated and I've probably got it wrong.
-
-
- >Response:
-
- >The way you describe this the 'worker class' is a bunch of cows that must
- >be kept protected so that the fields get plowed. The reason that the
- >fields need to be plowed is to support the farmer who feeds the cows
- >and makes a profit from the sale of seed.
-
- >This is indeed rather simplistic.
-
- >Consult your nearest Libertarian Party office.
-
- If you think it was bad before, just wait until the "best and the
- brightest" take over the country this January. Do you believe that
- a Rhodes scholor with a Yale law degree would trust the masses to
- make up their own minds ???
-
- Bruce E. Hayden
- bhayden@csn.org
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-