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- From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Subject: Re: The wages of Stupidity are Death
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- Reply-To: cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio)
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:44:36 GMT
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- dolan@noarlw.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
- |Sho claims that smoking is self destructive, and that
- |self-destructiveness is not equivalent to stupidity, and seeks thereby
- |to counter my claim that smoking among the t.b crowd is stupidity.
-
- [...]
- |Ignoring information that can save ones life, that has been present and
- |loudly apparent so long as one has been alive, and allowing oneself to
- |become addicted thereby, and making rationalizations thereafter for not
- |taking steps to break that addiction, is stupidity. No kinder term will
- |do.
-
- You utterly, completely, and totally missed the point.
-
- Sho knows all this. Sho is manifestly non-stupid.
- He smokes because he is self-destructive.
-
- Self-destructive impulses strike without regard to the
- intelligence of the victim, though I agree with Starcap'n
- that they tend to hit the intelligent harder than the stupid.
-
- Self-destruction has nothing to do with intelligence.
- It's a completely orthogonal property.
-
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- cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "Allow me to say that the arguments with which you have supported this
- extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was
- misjudged. You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be
- worked on by such persuasions as these." Jane Austen
-