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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
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- Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.010427.18907@spdcc.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 01:04:27 GMT
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- In article <BxrywE.B2B@queernet.org> rogerk@QueerNet.ORG (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
- >Richard Feynmann may have been a brilliant scientist, but he was also an
- >unenlightened, sexist, bigoted, egocentric asshole. Appealing to him as a
- >spiritual model leaves one more than a little short in the humanity department.
-
- Well, Feynman had his foibles as much as any of us. He was a product of his
- time, and it's certainly the case that he seemed to ignore the women in his
- life in his memoirs; that is, relegate them to the periphery. On the other
- hand, there's a lot about him which was pretty neat, especially his end-
- lessly curious mind. If he was unenlightened, it wasn't always from lack
- of trying (I mean, doing ketamine in an isolation tank isn't the mark of
- a conservative.) And bright people often are accused of being egocentric. :-)
- Do you know of stuff from other sources?
-
- Not that I think a doofus quoting Feynman does justice to either of them.
-
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