Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alan
From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Absurdity Revisited: A Perfect Example
Message-ID: <2605@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Jul-84 14:26:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: allegra.2605
Posted: Sun Jul 15 14:26:17 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Jul-84 23:52:52 EDT
References: <146@usfbobo.UUCP>, <852@pyuxn.UUCP>, <149@usfbobo.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 18

> Now while opposition to
> book-burning is, of itself, a fairly innocuous position to adopt,
> the collective open-mind, after years of bombardment, begins
> to confuse this position with *virtue*.  This is error and
> absurdity.

Imagine opposing book-burning on principle!  How disgusting!  We
thank you, Mr. Brunson, for pointing out the error and absurdity
of our position.

Of course, Mr. Brunson may be quite unhappy when he hears which
books we've decided to burn first...  :-)

-- 

	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories