From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!harpo!eagle!allegra!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!jfw Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Re: Are nuclear weapons *special*? - (nf) Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.156 Posted: Mon May 9 22:45:24 1983 Received: Sat May 14 00:39:42 1983 "Looking for RATIONAL discussion of the nuclear weapons issue,..." WHENEVER I see text with lots of CAPITALIZED words, it puts me in mind of the comic books of my HERO, ZIPPY the PINHEAD! Perhaps if people would quit SHOUTING about how their point of view is so RIGHT beyond question, and start thinking about what the other persons point of view might mean to them, perhaps the debate could be resolved more rapidly. To die from a bullet is still equivalent to dying from a nuclear fireball -- you end up dead either way. There are some of us who would like to avoid either possibility. John Woods, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, not off the net long enough...