Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!sics.se!sics.se!torkel From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: How to decide -- sci or talk. Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 90 10:11:35 GMT References: <7363@tank.uchicago.edu> <13437@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <257@fornax.UUCP> <1425@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: news@sics.se Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: mjones@fenway.uucp's message of 2 Feb 90 17:54:59 GMT In article <1425@awdprime.UUCP> mjones@fenway.uucp (Mike Jones) writes: >Hmm. Since the Objectivist types (especially the "sci diehards") are >going on at length about the superiority of reason and rational >response, one would have to assume that this position shouldn't be >difficult at all unless one were determined in the face of all opposition >to have a sci. group, no? Objectivists, of course, must be expected to act on the basis of supremely rational considerations (taking into account all known facts and never turning their backs on Ayn Rand's philosophy), so no doubt it is as you say. Still, I would prefer to take even unnecessary precautions to ensure that this wonderful scheme of creating a newsgroup for objectivists doesn't fail.