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From: cjohnson@zehntel.UUCP (Chris Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: The Bear
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 19:28:10 EST
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I don't own a tv so when I las night when I visited a  friend I got
a chance to see my first political ad of this campaign.  It was for
beloved RR and used a bear as a metaphor for the USSR saying that we
had to be as strong as "the bear" to be able to defend ourselves against
him (it?) if necessary.  

I decided that the metaphor actually made sense, but that it wasn't
carried far enough.  No matter how strong a person is, a bear will cause
significant damage in a fight.  Mankind hasn't survived in a world 
filled with bears by being "stronger", but by being more intelligent.

Politically is it "intelligent" to hate (i.e. fear and/or wish to destroy)
someone just because s/he is a {communist, liberal, conservative, facist,
capitalist, homosexual, hetrosexual, atheist, religous} person???  
Is it "stupid" to think that money spent on a bomber would be better used
for education or food?  

		       Chris Johnson

P.S.  I would rather be fuzzy-headed than empty-headed.