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- From: jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE MICHAEL FUCHS)
- Subject: Re: Morally good necessary possible sometimes possible reproductiveness
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:37:56 GMT
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- My pal Mickey has been more than willing to argue everything that goes
- on on this ridiculous thread. However, there is one point that he doesn't seem
- to want to respond to...
- > >
- > > >>>>cordially,
- > > >>>>mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- > > >>>>"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
- > >
- > > JMF:
- > > >>> Only cordially? But I feel like I know you like a brother. Or at least
- > > >>>that uncle that we kept locked up in the attic...
- > >
- > > MZ:
- > > >>No deadbeat is a relative of mine.
- > >
- > > JMF:
- > > > But in some possible world, I could be. And wouldn't that just be a
- > > >thrill for both of us.
- > >
- > > But the genotype is an essential property of our bodies, Skippy.
- > > Either we are relatives, or it is impossible for us to be related by
- > > blood. Since in the actual world, as a matter of empirical fact, no
- > > deadbeat is a relative of mine, and since you are a _bona fide_
- > > deadbeat, it is impossible for us to be related. Q.E.D.
- > If you don't define two guys like us who spend *way* too much time
- > arguing over really silly things on usenet as being deadbeats, I don't know
- > what is.
- Let me just, for grammatical reasons, change those last two words to
- "who are," and I think I have an argument that even the esteemed Mickey
- Zeleny won't touch. Wow...scary thought, huh?
- > >
- > > >>> Lard & Fishes,
- > > >>> Skipp
- > >
- > > >>cordially,
- > > >>mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- > > >>"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
- > >
- > > > More fun than lots of things, up to but
- > > > not including reruns of "Cheers,"
- > >
- > > cordially,
- > > mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- > > "Nothing can be said truly of what does not exist."
- > -Skipp
-
- -Skippy
-