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From: cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Christopher Young)
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Subject: Re: Our Protections (one more thing...)
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 21:26:23 EDT
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Summary: One more thing...

Sorry I made so many typos in my last post. Let me correct a few things and add
one more point I forgot to mention.

1. "Salvery" was meant to be "Slavery"
2. in
> socially acceptable. Centuries later, slavery was conducted on a much for
   "for" should have been "more"
3. I said something along the lines of 
"There are real problems with labeling thing items as protections"
   "things: should have been "these". I don't know how I messed that one up.

The extra point I wanted to make was this: if we want other people to treat us
well, then we bloody well better treat other people well also. It's a two way
street. If we don't want to be treated like strangers, then we should not treat
others as strangers. If we do not want to be oppressed or excluded, then we
should not oppress or exclude. Certainly there are times when this (exclusion)
is necessary (ie. the Moral Majority comes to a gay (etc.) dance and disrupts
it), but as a rule of thumb I think the "do not unto others as you would not
have them do unto you" and the "do unto others as you would have them do unto
you" rules have a lot of merit.

					-- Chris Young.
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