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Subject: Objectivist objectivity?
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 00:33:23 EDT
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    From: Willie Lim <WLIM@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>

    ... I sincerely doubt your objectivity in this case, given your
    libertarian leaning.

  Only those who reject libertarianism and objectivism can be
objective?  Who is your objective man?  Someone with no opinions?
A blank mind?

    Messages are stored in all sites that are on the mailing list.

  Only until people read and delete them.  I have several YEARS of
messages stored on my PC.  Over 30 megabytes, which is more than the
total volume of POLI-SCI since day one.

    ... I won't even bother to discuss your precious time wasted on
    all this flaming, as you (like everybody else) do this on your
    time and on your own accord.

  I think you are losing track of what we are debating.  My contention
is that people on this list including me have an incentive to keep
messages short.

        It is interesting that you now contest the LENGTH of my
        messages, rather than their CONTENT!  I assume you wouldn't
        bother to do the former if you wee able to do the latter.

    A rather presumptuous statement!  I find the content of most of
    your messages not worth their lengths.  Some of them make sense
    but a lot of them don't.

  Once again, you criticize length rather than content.

    When you can't argue against a point, instead of sounding a
    graceful retreat, you tend to wimp out by making some silly
    assumptions to make the problems go away or by digressing.

  Examples please?

    ... There are some shorter messages by libertarians that make more
    sense than yours.

  Good.  I would hate to think I am the only, or the best, voice for
freedom.

    If someone who is politically neutral were to use these arguments
    in parties and other social functions, he/she would sound more
    like a reasonable and intelligent individual ...

  If he were to use these arguments he would not be politically
neutral.  Why do you assume neutrality is a virtue?
                                                              ...Keith
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