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From: lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman)
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Subject: Re: The Difference It Makes . . .
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Date: 17 Jan 88 22:13:44 GMT
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Michael Robinson's flame is tough to respond to because all he does is
attack. Like anything else, my vision of how to run society is not
perfect. Utopias cannot exist in a real world. My only claim is that
in the long run my vision of society is better than any other.

I agree that society as I would like it to be would have problems.
There would still be the dirt poor and the filthy rich. The poor still
would not be as comfortable or live as long or have as much power as
the rich. The children of the poor would still not have as good a
chance as the children of the rich. 

If Mr. Robinson posts his version of what our government should do I
will respond by trying to explain why my version is better. Until then
I will ignore him.


One final note. Anyone who assumes that people who disagree with him
are automatically evil is either paranoid or an idiot. They may be
stupid, they may be intelligent but wrong, or, just possibly, they may
be right. My comment about MIT people was a bit out of line, but I was
rather annoyed by Andrew Lazarus.



These are the official opinions			Mike Friedman
of my organization. So, TOUGH!!