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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Report on Philosophies of Physicists
- Message-ID: <Sep.11.17.58.06.1992.2705@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 21:58:07 GMT
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- Greg Nicholls writes:
- > [doubt of concrete benefits of "Eastern" mindset, etc.]
- > <cheap shot on> 'Western' philosophy, for all it's faults, doesn't
- >approve of rolling tanks over students.
-
- It doesn't? The West, purely aside from Hitler and Stalin, has
- nurtured Napoleon, Metternich, the wonderful people who brought us
- South Africa, not to mention slavery, and George Armstrong Custer
- et al. The divine right of kings is a long-standing tradition
- (Hobbes, Plato). Let's not pat ourselves on the back, please.
-
- Greg Nicholls, I know you identified this as a cheap shot, but why
- did you even bother making it? It's plain old xenophobia, or worse
- yet, Yellow Peril-ism. It seems like all your posts are cheap shots
- or rants about you'll never let supposed enviro-fascists take away
- your car. Get a new topic.
-