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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Forces for Liberty
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.200542.26900@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:05:42 GMT
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- In article <18356@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen
- Rowley) writes:
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- >It's this concept of forcing people in any way that sticks
- >in the craw of liberty minded folks.
-
- You imply that those who do advocate force under conditions
- they deem suitable are not liberty-minded. I disagree.
-
- >Personally I find it the height of ignorance to claim high
- >moral ground while attempting to force others to adopt a
- >specific POV, no matter what the underlying reason.
-
- Aren't you claiming the high moral ground in the preceding
- paragraph, and while you can't *force* anyone to adopt your
- point of view, you are willing, aren't you, at least by
- force of argument, to attempt to get others to adopt your
- point of view?
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