Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:38:03 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: paul@freebsd-services.com, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010927233803.A77565@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010927211814.AAA4770@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>; from davids@webmaster.com on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:18:13PM -0700 References: <20010927213312.C69066@lpt.ens.fr> <20010927211814.AAA4770@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
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David Schwartz said on Sep 27, 2001 at 14:18:13: > >There is no such thing as a good ideology. A thinking person must always > >question, and accept certain aspects of any ideology which appeals, but be > >willing to reject other aspects of the same ideology (in particular > >religion, but also communism and capitalism). > >Everyone must have a personal philosophy, subject to change, and not > >dictated by external authorities who can't be questioned. > > Right, but this is not consistent with: > > >If there was an ideology that said having blonde hair was a crime but that > >violent actions were evil then it is not the fault of the ideology for > >violence against people with blonde hair since those perpetrating the > >violence are not believers in the ideology, they're just haters of people > >with blonde hair who have picked out that one piece of someone elses > >ideology to justify their actions. I didn't write that. You gave that (stupid, imo) example and Paul answered you, but I didn't even want to get into that debate. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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