From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 20:20:34 MDT
From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
> Osher Doctorow wrote:
> > From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Thurs. July 11, 2002 12:48PM
> >
> > Since when is it pathological to hate Ayn Rand? Is it not more
> > pathological to tell an email writer to stop free speech?
>
> Please learn to read.
Tsk, tsk, tsk ...
> I did not tell her to "stop free speech". I asked her to not continuously
reiterate
> the obviously high degree of dislike she has for Ayn Rand, yet again, for
the
> umpteenth time. That request is also free speech.
I was responding to a post by Phil Osborn, where he posited, essentially,
that "[Ayn] upset the whole establishment applecart." I disagreed, and gave
examples of why I did. I would have preferred that you, Samantha, had
attacked the message rather than the messenger; however, that choice is
certainly yours to make.
> It is pathological to take every little opportunity possible to
> endlessly denigrate Rand or anyone else, in my opinion. You are
> entitled to your own.
I must not have reached the pinnacle of my pathology yet, as I did not take
the opportunity to denigrate Rand when "Why most transhumanists will need to
move to Mars" was posted today.
Olga
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