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Subject: comes the dawn
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Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 12:11:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 15 12:11:22 1983
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A BRILLIANT DEDUCTION from Laura Creighton:

	[Your] bottom line is this:  WHEN I AM RIGHT I HAVE THE RIGHT TO
	IMPOSE MY BELIEFS ON OTHERS, AND WHEN I AM NOT I DON'T.

Understood at last!  However, I don't like the language of "rights".  I
would rather say it this way:  When I am right and it would make people on
average better off, I have the *obligation* to impose my beliefs on others;
and otherwise I have the obligation not to.

			The one whose ideas you love to hate,
				--Paul Torek, U of MD, College Park
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