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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile)
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Subject: Re: Officer, arrest that man!  He...he manipulated my emotions!!
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 00:14:44 EDT
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> >What about a society that holds these things as so personal and private
> >that the community has the right to say that people shall not gratuitously
> >manipulate the feelings and physical reactions of others?
> >
> No, wait.  You're right.  There are all these people who obviously don't
> know any better, and we have to protect them (poor wuzzums).  Good Lord,
> you're *so* right.  Look at all these people being shamelessly stimulated
> in the adrenal gland at amusement parks.  And people pay *money* to 
> be thus gratuitously manipulated...
> 		--cosmique muffin (dorothy)
> SWManipulator seeks Large Law Book (for use as Meese-seeking projectile)

We are not talking about amusement park thrills.  We are talking about the
deepest, most pervasive, and least understood part of the human psyche, as
well as that segment of human behavior that is subject to apparently
arbitrary but also apparently vital regulation in every human culture, in
every religious system, and in the laws developed by every state (including
the English Common Law).

But I do like your style -- it echoes that of another poster seen on certain
other groups, an author with whom I have locked horns a few times (his
choice!), an author who makes humor and deciBel level substitute for clear
thought about facts and feelings.  It's brilliant, in a Primitive sort of
way.  I'm amused by its presumption ;^}
(no, I don't practice being condescending -- it's natural talent ...;-)
-- 

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