Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!topaz!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!MC.LCS.MIT.EDU!kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu From: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Re: Dueling and other unreasonable behaviors Message-ID: <12240608732.25.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 01:11:59 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12240608732.25.MCGREW Posted: Sun Sep 21 01:11:59 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Sep-86 18:22:05 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@mc.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 31 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu From: Willie Lim Can we stick to debating about plausible things? Whether something is plausible or not is a subjective thing. No it isn't. In this case, it is very dependent on exposure to other cultures. There are people who feel that a libertarian system is highly implausible. Those are the people who have not been exposed to other cultures. They often tend to think of the system in effect when and where they are as being inevitable and the only possible way to do things. Even people who study history often fail to realize that it was not just goods and services and place names that were different, but individual's ideas of what was possible and of what was proper. There have been amazing changes in individual's ideas as to what is proper over just the past 30 years or so, especially regarding social tolerance. While I like what the present administration is doing economically, I am not so fond of their attempt to roll back people's attitudes to the intolerance of the 1950s. Whether duels will be more common or not depends on the society. Right. That's just what I was saying. ...Keith -------