Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk From: kfk@ccieng2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: What ever happened to Human Rights? Message-ID: <204@ccieng5.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 07:58:36 EST Article-I.D.: ccieng5.204 Posted: Fri Dec 9 07:58:36 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Dec-83 22:35:50 EST Lines: 25 The speed with which a discussion degenerates to a name-calling shout- ing match in net.flame is absolutely astounding. My last submission on this subject, and then I'm unsubscribing to net.flame for about a month: The SAME people who argue (rightfully so) that everybody should receive the SAME treatment are frequently precisely those who point out the fact repeatedly that "their " is DIFFERENT from everybody else. It's fine to be different; but why make that an issue? Stop hyperventilating over the differences, and start mellowing out on the similarities. I don't believe I'm different from blacks; let's notice what's the same. That's the problem. When someone resolves the contradiction in the 1st statement, I will be impressed. If you stare at that statement long enough, you may notice a contradiction of mine in it, having to do with active/passive problems. I know that, and the statement doesn't quite precisely state what I am thinking, but that's the only way I can get the idea across. Anyway, overly-careful use of the English language has never been one of the problems of the average net.flame reader; peo- ple have "quoted" "my arguments" that I can't find in my articles so often that it's depressing. Others' extrapolations of my arguments are probably the worst. Disgusted, but managing to get it inside 25 lines, Karl Kleinpaste ...![ [seismo, allegra]!rochester!ritcv, rlgvax]!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk