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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Patrick's ideas of what makes right (Was: Bare-Fased [sic])
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- In <nyikos.725739272@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >Ask Siren if you can. You can't? Why not?
-
- Because she's dead, you ignoramus.
-
- >Your old nemesis, Chaney, once said she was flamed off the net
- >by the politically correct pro-choicers.
-
- He lied. She sent a post asking him to stop. He continued to lie.
-
- Mr. Chaney:
-
- Please stop throwing my name at people as I have been told
- that you are doing. I have enjoyed most of my stay, even though some
- of it is less than savory. To most people who have any impression of
- me, I am sure they will be perfectly capable of judging my virtues and
- shortcomings without your constant harping about it.
- I have disagreed with people, sometimes even vituperic and
- acrimonious people, during my year-long fling with t.a., but I try to
- forgive and forget, and assume that other people will of their own
- benevolence-- as James Steerforth said to David Copperfield:
-
- "Remember me at my best."
-
- There are honorable adversaries and friends that I will not
- forget, and bitter enemies who I have yet to forgive or forget, but I
- sincerely hope that I have provided an example of someone who is not
- afraid to be true to her own self and fostered some decent discussion
- in my time. Using my name the way I think you are serves no
- constructive purpose and violates what I think I stood for, and I
- beseech you to stop doing so.
-
- And to the rest of the people, may I offer some very humble
- opinion with trepidation:
-
- The problem of abortion choice is so complex and intricately
- related to many other facets of the society that it is possible that a
- "correct" answer may never be arrived at, and will never be as long as
- people stick to the absolutist approach of "this is the supreme and
- immovable truth regardless of circumstances".
-
- Don't try to argue absolutes. It is like arguing infinities--
- it simply will never hang together logically. It is also, oh, so
- flame-inducing, all the time!
-
- --- --- ---
-
- "Remember me at my best." Rest in peace, Siren.
- --
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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