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From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: EFF Chapters
Keywords: EFF college academia chapters
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.223200.9420@novell.com>
Date: 6 Apr 91 07:42:13 GMT
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 22:32:00 GMT

In article <670552208.6477@mindcraft.com> karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
>In article <1991Apr1.061003.18924@isis.cs.du.edu> swoodcoc@isis.UUCP
>(Steven Markus Woodcock) writes:
>>   With all due respect, Mr. Bates, your organization lost MY respect when
>>it came down against the SDI concept, favoring the demonstrably amoral
>>M.A.D. doctrine over M.A.S. (Mutually Assured Survival).
>
>It takes some pretty tricky moral gymnastics to deny to oneself
>that a fully functional `defensive' system would also be a potent
>tool in an offensive setting.  I see no clear-cut moral distinction
>between the two concepts.

So you see no difference between a scud and a patriot?  And it takes
tricky moral gymnastics for you to figure that out.
And you see no clear cut moral distinctions between defense and an
indiscriminate weapon of terror.
I think you just broke a record in my book of intellectual rape on
oneself a person would commit to justify his ideology.

Tony