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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Foundations of Values
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.081655.169@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <18420@autodesk.COM> <1993Jan20.074855.19431@macc.wisc.edu> <18436@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:16:55 GMT
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- In article <18436@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen
- Rowley) writes:
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- I wrote:
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- ]>Quite
- ]>a large number of us have formed our notions of what is fit
- ]>and proper on a set of basically repressed and oppressive
- ]>models furnished for us by the majority society. It's not
- ]>that all of that has to be rejected, but that we need to
- ]>have thought about, evaluated, and consciously chosen
- ]>ethical principles based on who and what we really are,
- ]>shunning especially the negative myths and stereotypes we
- ]>got from home, school, and the closet.
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- ]As I am fond of saying "In an evolving universe, those who
- ]stand still are really moving backwards"
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- True as that may be, it's quite unresponsive to my point.
- Perhaps you simply accepted my point without comment and
- added this to it.
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