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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Australia, farming, and kangaroos
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- Message-ID: <724399927snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <1466601998@igc.apc.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 06:12:07 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <1466601998@igc.apc.org> alanm@igc.apc.org writes:
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- > Naturally, McCarthy will support anything that sounds like an
- > expression of nationalism.
-
- There is no nationalism, Alan, merely democratically constituted
- administrative practice worthy of due consideration and respect if
- we are ever to find a sound and workable basis for international
- cooperation.
-
- > Division is the very essence of ultraconservatism. It attempts to
- > prevent cooperative arrangements from emerging at every opportunity.
- > The more divided we are, the more unchecked are the most powerful.
-
- Nor is there division, Alan. If you are unable to appreciate the basic
- common sense of recognising the integrity and autonomy of people other
- than those serving your own self-interest, however morally superior
- you might consider it to be, I doubt it very much indeed that others
- will respect you either.
-
- In the end they just tell you to piss off, and there is nothing on
- earth you can ever do about beyond paying thanks that they did not
- line you up in front of a firing squad instead.
-
- Why don't you wake up a little to reality?
-
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