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Subject: Re: Suicide Pills at Brown Univ.
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 14:05:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 14:05:31 1984
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> >	How can you say that symbolic protests of the sort brought
> >about here at Brown are useless?  The fact of the matter is that
> >national attention was brought to the issue by a tiny percentage of
> >the population (Brown has ~6600 students and only a percentage of
> >that voted for the idea) ...

> 	Oh, sorry.  Despite the last two or three years of worrying about
> nuclear war,  nobody really thought about it until some number less than
> 6600 college students brought it to national attention.  :-)  Really, what
> arrogance.  

The arrogance is that the real "tiny percentage of the population" who
brought "national attention" to the issue was the already-biased news
media - a group that has forgotten that power implies responsibility.
-- 
		The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
		{amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab

You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.