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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: heterosexuality and feminism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.154833.11649@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov18.043254.24606@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> <1992Nov21.161252.6193@nmsu.edu> <1992Nov22.010044.362@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:48:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.010044.362@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov21.161252.6193@nmsu.edu> dsteinbe@nmsu.edu (David Steinberg) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> ..............................................................
- >>
- >>
- >>Anyway, I, for one, do not assume that I have stumbled upon a mountain
- >>of enlightenment. Therefore I assume that my beliefs are just that:
- >>my beliefs. Other people's are equally valid.
- > ^^^^^^^
- >So no one is write & no one is wrong ? Say, beliefs of Hitler (in "Mein
- >Kampf", for ex.) and Albert Shweitzer ( "Letters from the Lambarene" for ex.)
- >should be treated as equally respectful ? (I'm simplifing, but it was you
- >who started simplifications)
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- I think it makes sense if you read that -other people's beliefs are
- personally valid-. What you believe is real for you. But not necessarily
- for any other person.
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- >>If only our so called
- >>sceptic could come to the same conclusion...
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- To be fair, skepticism is not, by definition, a research field. Healthy
- skepticism is just reasonable doubt. And technically, it is not up to the
- skeptic to disprove things. If someone makes a claim, it is up to them
- to back said claim. I have not noticed that the anti-gravity machime
- market is saturated.
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- >So, (1)I'm "equally valid", ergo (2)I'd come to the same conclusion as you ?
- >And you are math major ? Hmmm ... ;->
-
- I believe the problem here is literary.
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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