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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
- Message-ID: <BzMxHD.4vB@demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <01GSKZND44DS0019M3@opie.bgsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:31:59 GMT
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- In article <01GSKZND44DS0019M3@opie.bgsu.edu> CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:
- :I belittle and mock such beliefs as I have the wit and opportunity to do so.
- :I dispute the argument that mocking and belittling beliefs "does no one any
- :good." In point of fact, satire and mockery are highly effective tools of
- :discourse. I much prefer them to bombs and punji sticks, myself.
-
- And people who hold beliefs so strong 'they're willing to die for them'
- (which usually reads they're willing to risk death while trying to kill
- someone else...) scare me shitless. Those are the ones that deserve
- ridicule and dispute most of all.
-
- G
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