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From: shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
Subject: Re: EFF Chapters
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.021535.12900@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1991 02:15:35 GMT

In article <1991Apr3.223200.9420@novell.com> tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
>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.

The US Army biological warfare research program was dismantled in 1968
but the research and development continues, purportedly for "defensive"
purposes.  I'm surprised that anyone would consider anthrax anything
but 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.

This sentence is unparseable.  Does an idea lurk within?

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