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- From: Geraint.Jones@comlab.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.celtic,uk.politics
- Subject: Re: A moral dilemma (was Re: UK unemployment figures)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.215134.15698@clts1.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:51:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.151742.11586@osf.org> <1992Dec22.131022.14221@clts1.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Sender: geraint@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Geraint Jones)
- Organization: The denial of error
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- Originator: geraint@clts1.comlab
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- david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George) wrote (first quoting me):
- ( |> ...
- ) |> should I now feel sorry for those people who in similar circumstances
- ( |> came to a different conclusion?
- )
- ( No you shouldn't,
-
- Now, that's funny. Because the Government seems to think I should. That in
- itself is almosty enough to settle my mind on the subject. More worryingly,
- almost everyone else seems to think I should...
-
- ) I don't think Morna Findlay should either. I don't think you were being
- ( asked that. However the idea that the south (London) is a land completely
- ) populated by greedy Tory voters ... is absurd. Labelling all Southerners
- ( as rich Tory neo-colonialists is as offensive as ...
-
- Now concentrate! I didn't do that. I didn't /even/ quote anyone else doing
- that. The message about the moral dilemma in which I find myself only asked
- whether I should feel sorry for people who were less - er - cautious than me
- with their money. I did not even call them irresponsible. g
- ___
- And a merry Christmas to you too mate.
-