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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The Draft, suicidal arguments, Alan, and misplaced trust.
Message-ID: <1826@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 18:08:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 20 18:08:02 1983
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Well, I wasn't the one proposing the non-viable alternative, you were.
Furthermore, I wasn't the one complaining, you were.

I suggest that until you learn the difference between Reagan and Watt,
and Andropov and Kohmeni you stop suggesting suicide.   While it's
satisfying to rail at the national leaders, it doesn't do any
good if you kill the nation in the process, and it REALLY doesn't do
any good when you use emotionally loaded and indeterminate terms
like "not playing with a full deck" which I take in your case to mean
that you don't agree with them.  I also think it's a bit arrogant to assume
that anyone who doesn't do what you want isn't playing with a full deck, but
that's another argument that I don't plan on restarting.

While suicide may be a viable <hmmm, a bit of a contridaction there>
alternative for one person (I'll concede the point, but I don't necessarily
agree),  it's not (by its very definition) a policy that you can enforce
on others.  Then it's called homicide, and THAT'S not OK.  <Policy statement
by rabbit!jj on homicide.>


I notice that you are afraid of Reagan and Watt, and that you feel completely
free to say so.  I suggest that you consider what you would think about
Andorpov and/or  Kohmeni if you lived in the appropriate place, and how
free you would feel to criticize them.  Perhaps Reagan and Watt aren't so
bad after all?  <I'm not sure about James Watt, myself, but I sure as
damned hell am not about to equate Watt with Castro.  You seem to feel
completely free do so, an act that seems both uninformed and silly to me.>

rabbit!<back from vacation and sorry that I am>jj


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