Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:40:26 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, George Barnett <george@alink.co.za>, bastill@sa.apana.org.au, Sanjay Bhattacharya <sanbh@gmx.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Everybody's right, nobody's wrong (was Re: blah blah blah) Message-ID: <20020628021026.GC90848@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3D1B75C3.BE0EC012@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10206271221420.39735-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <3D1B75C3.BE0EC012@mindspring.com>
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On Thursday, 27 June 2002 at 13:29:55 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Jamie Bowden wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: >> :One aspect of public philosophy that has always struck me as being >> :uniquely American is the idea that the other person's point of view >> :has equal validity to your own, regardless of how ridiculous that >> :point of view may be. >> >> Not every American equates one's right to believe in a stupid idea with >> all ideas being equally valid Terry. Please watch where you paint with >> that broad stroke. > > 8-). The idea is American, not all Americans have the idea. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that this means that the idea is uniquely (US) American, or even that it originated there. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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