From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 01:44:41 MDT
Olga Bourlin wrote:
>
> 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.
>
The terms of your disagreement were exceedingly less reasonable
than this rehash. You tend, if you will forgive my saying so,
to froth at the mouth a bit when Ayn Rand comes up. It gets
tiresome.
>
>>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.
>
touche.
- samantha
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