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- From: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor)
- Subject: Re: rON bashing
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:07:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.192225.14625@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >Perhaps we're not reading the same articles. Did you happen
- >to catch this insult directed squarely at Ms. Kitsis' religious
- ^^^^^^^^^
- >
- beliefs:
- ^^^^^^^^
- > "I think it idiotic to be utilizing modern technologies that spread your
- > words worldwide almost instantaniously, but refeuse to eat a ham-and-cheese
- > sandwich because you might get condemned to whatever for it."
-
- And so it seems, we are reading the same articles. However, it would
- also seem we have vastly different interpretations of that excerpt.
-
- "I think >it< idiotic..." It, as in an idea, not a person. How is this
- a personal attack? I am not Jewish, so I am not as sensitisized to
- personal insult in this area as some others might be. However, I could
- make the statement, " I think it idiotic to have to go to work." Who
- or what would I be insulting then?
-
- >I think Ms. Kitsis is entitled to respond to such intolerant
- >remarks in any manner she pleases.
-
- Indeed she is Mr. Holtsinger, indeed she is.
- One can always meet intolerance with invective, but where's the
- challenge in that?
-
- (Which is not to say, I can always meet the challenge myself.)
- --
- Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- -- Napoleon
-