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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:25:13 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- > No, I was just referring to your present emphasis on how deep
- > beliefs are found among the good guys, and how nasty fanatics don't
- > really have deep beliefs. As to whether we mean the same thing by
-
- If I thought that, which I certainly don't, then why would I have
- used Hitler as an example of a person with contemptible, but deeply
- held beliefs? Nor do I believe that a person with deep beliefs is
- a fanatic. I do believe any belief system or situation can have its
- fanatics.
-
- > Yes indeed, but our notions of inoffensive teasing and of disrespect are,
- > I suspect, too much at variance for your question to be very meaningful.
-
- Have it your way. I believe your response when I initially demurred
- was that I, typical of my kind, hadn't thought my position through.
-