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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Annotated Humanist (Bottom of the 3rd Inning)
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 04:48:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 04:48:19 1984
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Bickford is off and flaming at the humanists again:
 >I am not opposed to "freedom, justice, and peace." But the humanist
 >version of each of them isn't. Freedom is the desire and ability to do
 >what you should; the humanist version is pure license. Humanist justice
 >keeps the criminals on the streets and people behind barred windows.
 >Humanistic peace is accomplished through total domination (their
 >"universal society"; let's hear it for local control).

Well, this part of Bickford's writing belongs in net.flame.  He's so full
of blind hatred for "humanism" (even though he doesn't even seem to under-
stand the very basics) that he has to blame every social ill, be it real or
imagined, on the humanists.  <<thinking off, flame on>>  Give him half a
chance and he'll be out witch-hunting humanists, loading them into
paddywagons or cattlecars to cart them off to jails or some other place
where they can be kept out of the way.  <<flame off, maybe thinking on:->>

Since when is "freedom" the desire and ability to do what you should?  Or
are we making up our own rules and definitions again?  Freedom implies a
lack of constraint, necessity, etc.  I don't see humanists advocating
unabridged freedom - try freedom tempered with justice, responsibility, and
all.
-- 
...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.		Dick Dunn
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