From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 16:34:37 MDT
>
> Why, Alex, you are so very nice today. Why so nice? Are you feeling guilty
> about your little feeding frenzy the other day during our immigration
> "debate"? Your response, and the response of others to the same subject,
> fascinates me. Because of the demonization of the entire "debate", when the
> subject is broached in a forum, a certain significant percentage of the
> people feel completely justified in just going apesh*t, like a white shark
> on a crippled seal. It reminds so much of Shirley Jackson's short story,
> _The Lottery_.
Does it even occur to you that those in vocal opposition to you might
actually have solid principles, and might be honestly expressing their
opinions that your beliefs are wrong and dangerous? If you are claiming
that those who oppose your point of view are just "animals" reacting to
cultural progamming rather than thinking, who's the one "demonizing"?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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