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- From: pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh)
- Subject: Re: Re. Integrity
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.151753.24181@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Physics Department
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:17:53 GMT
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- Brian D. Carlson writes:
-
- (a reasonably temperate explanation of the basis for his conservative
- beliefs, then...)
-
- > The one thing I don't understand is this. If liberalism is the
- >ultimate anser to all of our countries ills, why are the majority of
- >liberals I have met bitter and seemingly miserable people, while the
- >majority of conservatives I have met are easy going people who seem much
- >more happy with who they are in life?
-
- To paraphrase the late Graham Chapman of Monty Python (wearing his colonel's
- uniform, of course):
-
- "STOP THAT! STOP THAT! RIGHT! Now, this began as a nice little explanation
- of the poster's beliefs, but now it's just got silly! Very silly indeed!
- Right! Now, let's see some nice fairy tales about the police..."
-
- Okay, maybe the part about the police doesn't apply here. :-) But that bit
- about the majority of conservatives being happy, well-adjusted people and the
- majority of liberals being miserable misfits really needs some convincing
- support, which just doesn't appear in the post.
-
- - Patrick Walsh
- University of Virginia Department of Physics
- pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
-