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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:45:02 GMT
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- From: Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- the beliefs of Hitler as much as those of Gandhi.This was the view I
- supposed lay behind your original complaint, and this is the view I
- reject. Mere depth of belief deserves neither respect, nor admiration.
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- But Torkel, he *has* to claim that deep belief deserves respect, otherwise
- he's on a very sticky wicket with his own beliefs which have absolutely
- nothing going for them except conviction in their irrationality. Unless
- he affords the same respect to the opposition, he has no moral high ground
- to occupy to ram his own holier than thou shit down our throats.
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