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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP
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Subject: Playboy, honestly
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 13:38:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 13:38:48 1984
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>>[Jeff Sargent]
>>I have been criticized by one or two of my Christian brothers because I
>>sometimes do purchase Playboy...

>[Dick Dunn]
>But at least you're being honest.  Basically, you're doing what they're
>thinking--if not, they wouldn't be so judgmental, would they?

First.
How does being honest about an particular act confer any measure
of virtue upon the act?  If I say you're a jerk (which, let us
be clear, I'm not), then does your estimate of the rightness or
wrongness of my act change simply because I may offer the slander
in a most honest and expansive way?  Probably not.  In the same way,
Jeff being honest about his reading material is irrelevant to
the act.

Second.
I don't think that I can agree much with the part about Jeff
doing what his critics are thinking, either.  I was not one of
them, but I do think that reading Playboy is unlikely to bring one
closer to God.  And I haven't the slightest inclination or
desire to read it.  Yes, really.
-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever: for they
are the rejoicing of my heart.
					Psalm 119:111