Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!david
From: david@randvax.UUCP (David Shlapak)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Controlling Nuclear Weapons
Message-ID: <2142@randvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Nov-84 23:58:43 EST
Article-I.D.: randvax.2142
Posted: Fri Nov 23 23:58:43 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Nov-84 13:34:16 EST
References: <345@whuxl.UUCP> <2136@randvax.UUCP> <354@whuxl.UUCP>
Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica
Lines: 42

> Needless to say it takes no great amount of sense to know that 2 bullets
> are even worse than one.
> Increasing our nuclear weapons does NOT make us safer by any means.
> Peace, before it's too late.....
>       tim sevener whuxl!orb

Well, that all depends...I'd feel a lot better with two bullets in my hand
than I would with one in David Berkowitz'...

                       *** FLAME ON, FULL BLAST ***

Jesus, Tim, when are you going to get it through your head that hysterical
emotional jeremiads like yours accomplish nothing towards promoting the
cause of peace?!?  I'm sure they make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside
'cause you've once again demonstrated your moral superiority to those who
merely THINK about these issues twenty-four hours a day...but you (and those
who share your rhetorical proclivities) will never get anywhere worthwhile
so long as you persist in substituting fantastic ravings for sober analysis.
That's what Milo has been trying to tell you, albeit in a somewhat bombastic
manner...

Tim, I've tried in net postings and private communications to get you to
undersrand this, and so have numerous others, but you just don't seem to be
getting the message...No one is arguing that nuclear war would be an
unimaginable and unprecedented catastrophe, SO WHY DO YOU PERSIST IN PREACHING
TO THE CHOIR???  The REAL question, and one that I'be never seen you address
in a cool, rational manner, is how best do we prevent such a war from
happening...Yeah, universal disarmament would be a gas, but IT JUST AIN'T
GONNA HAPPEN, and you're just wasting your breath screaming about it.  Now
I honestly don't care how long you bang your head against any wall of your
choosing (this is, thank God, America), but that act doesn't give you
any sort of moral or intellectual superiority over those of us who choose to
muddle along in the real world, solving the problems we confront the best
we can.

Sorry Tim, but this white boy's just plain out of patience...I've tried
reasoning with you, now I'm down to my only other option... ignoring you...
I just hope that my `n' key can take the strain...

Peace yes, surrender, no...

					    --- das