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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Heinlein's panegyric for the Bomb
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 09:19:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 09:19:18 1986
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>Aaaaaah yes, the old "quote out of context" ploy.  Most ingenious.

It is highly questionable whether any quote eight paragraphs long can be
reasonably said to be "out of context".

>Here, I *am* more familiar with the context, and, as I suspected, the
>quote in context is far less clearly nucleophilic.  Consider:  The quote
>explores the hypothesis that a nuclear war would cull the "unfit", and
>that hardy, freedomloving folk might selectively survive.  (Even so, it
>is worth noting that again he did *not* say that the net effect would be
>beneficial.)

YOU LIE!!!  He said that the war would be good for the country in the very
first paragraph.  What the hell is wrong with you jerks, can't you read
perfectly plain and straightforward English?  Am I to be reduced to simply
quoting him again and again while you deny that he said what he said in the
very clearest possible terms?  Tell me, what does it mean to you to say that
something will be good for the country?  That the country has been going
downhill and that this will be the turning point?  Tell me which particular
word you don't understand and I'll be happy to define it for you.

Oh, I forgot.  HEINLEIN said it.  Therefore, it can't say anything wrong.
If it does say something wrong, just squint during that sentence.  I notice
not one of you Heinlein supporters has had the balls to include the relevant
quotes I gave from "Farnham's Freehold", because if you did, the discussion
would be over.
-- 
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