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- From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.215011.19138@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:50:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.212201.5955@tc.cornell.edu> <BzM8Fq.97F@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec21.164230.17150@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1992Dec21.185313.19414@netcom.com>
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- In <1992Dec21.185313.19414@netcom.com>
- solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
-
- >If I may quote from today's Miss Manners column:
-
- > Miss Manners has seen many a person won over to a good cause
- > through polite appeals to reason or compassion, under
- > conditions ranging from drawing-room discussion to picketing.
-
- > But she has never yet heard of anyone who was under rude attack
- > killing the instinct for self-defense and saying: "Wait a
- > minute--I believe you have a point there. It's a good thing you
- > yelled and threw paint at me because it made me realize that
- > you are right and I was wrong. I appreciate your calling this
- > to my attention."
-
- Um ... pardon me for being so self-centred ... but this is *exactly*
- how I have reacted, not only to rude attacks, but to violence and
- attempts at sexual seduction!
-
- >But then, Miss Manners is a conservative (or, in motss parlance,
- >"fascist").
-
- ... whereas I am what is politely known as an "idiot". :-)
-
- [Sorry, everybody; no need to waste bandwidth on replying to
- this; I'm just not in a serious mood today. ... Thank God! Yippee!
- ... but at least I deleted soc.motss from the Newsgroups: line.
- People in soc.bi are probably getting used to me now.]
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