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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Date: 24 Dec 92 01:02:11 EST
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- In article <BzqF8u.8KC@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld) writes:
-
- >My first impulse, on reading this thread, was to wonder why Zelany has
- >so much trouble finding someone clever to challenge him.
- >
- >My next impulse was to respond to the invoking of "Hitler" by writing
- >a note saying that the other sure sign of a degenerating thread was
- >the invoking of "Ayn Rand"; then I saw the invocation of Ayn Rand.
- >
- >Now I'm back to my first impulse: why are all of Mr. Zelany's
- >antagonists so, well, so...non-clever?
-
- Well, Michael, it is an emotional issue, with my opponents committed to
- the onerous task of justifying the moral worth of emotional preferences.
- Naturally, they tend to confuse feeling good with being right.
-
- But then even the clever non-antagonistic ones have been known to make
- egregious spelling mistakes now and then...
-
- >--
- >Michael Feld | E-mail: <feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- >Dept. of Philosophy | FAX: (204) 261-0021
- >University of Manitoba | Voice: (204) 474-9136
- >Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2M8, Canada
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
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