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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism
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Date: 26 Jan 90 06:27:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: lynne@Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM (Lynne Ragazzini)

In article <469@aviary.Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM>, lynne@Stars
(Lynne Ragazzini) writes:

>The opponents of Objectivism _as a whole_ can have their own
>discussions.  I want to deal with the Galts, Reardens, Wyatts,
>Hugh Axtons and Dagny Taggarts of the net, not the Mouches,
>Boyles and Jim Taggarts.

  It seems to me that what you want is a mailing list. Putting
stuff on the net with attitudes like the above will insure that
people will want to flame you. With a mailing list, you can
continue to live in your dream world, where you are a
super-creative, super-intelligent Wonder Woman out of 'Atlas
Shrugged'. In a newsgroup, if it is moderated in the usual way
(which allows for opposing opinions to be voiced) you will have
to deal with the real world--and in the real world, the
Objectivists generally lose the argument, because on average
(with a few exceptions) they tend to be less educated, less
intelligent, and less capable of rational thought than their
opponents.
--
ucbvax!garnet!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/Garnetgangster/Berkeley CA 94720
"We never make assertions,  Miss Taggart,"  said Hugh Akston.  "That is
the moral crime peculiar to our enemies.  We do not tell--we *show*.  We
do not claim--we *prove*." H Akston, the last of the advocates of reason