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From: alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Alan McGowen)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Re: Why have Marriage Laws? (was Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?)
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Date: 11 Jan 91 19:39:27 GMT
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>	No disagreement from Mr. McGowen....but there are a lot of issues that
>	aren't so well defined or are more insidious.
>
>	What do you call silence in the face of Ronald Regan (the american 
>	press).  
>       [...]

Fundamentalists don't have a monopoly on stupidity.

>	is the Socratic Method a game no two people can play?
>	is there a limit to what can be argued, what view can be tolerated
>	without question or explanation and if so what is it?


Anything whatsoever can be thought about and talked about. But toleration
of practices is another matter. Everyone agrees that it would be immoral to
tolerate the practices of Nazis or the Khmer Rouge. I merely pointed out
that it is also immoral to tolerate the practices of those who seek to
restrict others' freedom of thought, as fundamentalists do.

My posting wasn't meant to be an exhaustive treatment of everything that
should be opposed for whatever reason.

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Alan McGowen

alanm@hpindbu.cup.hp.com