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- From: max@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com (Max Webb)
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- Subject: Re: BofA and UW can now support discrimination against blacks and Jews
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.022528.22499@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 02:25:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hilbert.1992Sep6.022528.22499
- References: <1992Sep03.181552.28899@microsoft.com> <1992Sep4.033027.12445@auto-trol.com> <1992Sep4.182434.21206@cs.yale.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep4.182434.21206@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep4.033027.12445@auto-trol.com> katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty) writes:
- >>Karen Hill, you are an immoral, ignorant bigot. Your immoral, ignorant
- >>bigotry hurts children.
- >Hmm...
- >It strikes me that the claim that bigotry is "immoral" is every bit
- >as tenuous as the claim that homosexuality is "immoral". While
- >I agree that there is no support for the latter, neither do I
- >see support for the former.
- >-Ekr
-
- Wellll, most people buy into the 'treat others as you would yourself
- be treated' principle, and so do I. This has the fundamental requirement
- that you treat them as people - not, for example, as means to an end.
- So I take this 'translational invariance' as an axiom.
-
- Bigotry doesn't treat others as people, with all their complexity, but
- as cartoon bad guys. The inference about the immorality of bigotry follows
- straight away.
-
- >Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S) rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
-
- Regards,
- Max G. Webb
-
- Rita Mae Brown: "The only queers are the ones that don't love anybody."
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