[Non-member submission]
I was just raising a red flag as I clearly stated when I said "My point
being etc...." As for this L. Neil Smith, I wasn't aware of this guy, but
after doing a quick web search, I found his site and now have some more info
to read and digest. I wasn't trying to interrupt the train of thought for
the thread, just adding a side note about the language used in the title.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On
Behalf Of Michael M. Butler
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 3:42 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Trolling? was Re: Extremism, was Re: CULTURE OF GAck!
Thpthpthpthpthttt!
Thanks for a complete reiteration of things everyone on this list
already knows about, and many agree with. Was there some deeper point of
your post that escaped me, or were you just rising to a red flag?
Your "non-member submission" implies that you might not know that we
mostly already know about L. Neil Smith, and he's the
no-initiation-of-force poster boy. Okay?
Now, do you know who _Morris Dees_ is? Do you understand the point of my
post? I suggest you try.
Best of luck to you.
Jerry Mitchell wrote:
>
> [Non-member submission]
>
> Extremism? Just because a thing is extreme doesn't make it right or wrong.
A
> system of extreme dishonestly and extreme honesty are not equal. I for one
> will take extremely good health over extremely bad health. As for
political
> systems, I'm still trying to find a system that will not initiate force on
> its members. Try to picture a system like that and you will certainly
> develop what most people would call an "extreme" system, yet what could be
> more moral then the banishment of force from human relations? My point
being
> is that 99 times out of 100 that you see the term extremism being used,
> there will shortly be an argument by intimidation behind it and not an
> argument of logic.
>
> We place no reliance on virgin or pigeon;
> our method is science, our aim is religion.
> Aleister Crowley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael M. Butler
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 9:21 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Extremism, was Re: CULTURE OF GAck! Thpthpthpthpthttt!
>
> Speaking of extremism: I hope you'll explain Morris there, sometime. I
> still can't figure that guy out.
>
> Joe Dees wrote:
> >
> > >Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:32:24 -0500
> > >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
> > >To: extropians@extropy.org
> > >Subject: Re: CULTURE: Interesting Chicago Statistics
> > >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
> > >
> > >Wasn't Brian's original post using 1997 stats? Were these actually
> > >murders or just homicides?
> > >
> > >Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >>Brian Williams writes:
> > >> >> 1A) DuPage county has easy access to g**s and no murder/less
> > >> >>crime
> > >>
> > >> Where do these statistics come from? Does anyone have sources?
> > >>
> > >> I finally got around to looking up murder statistics for Dupage
> > >> County. There were 10 murders in 1998 and 13 murders in 1999. I
> > >> can't find 2000 statistics, but it certainly is not zero because
> > >> there are plenty of murders in the news.
> > >> (http://www.dupageco.org/sheriff/Crime%20Stoppers.htm is the first
> > >> example I found with a google search.)
> > >
> > As Mike Lorrey said to me after I posted my short phenomenology of
> extremism: This discussion belongs on EXI-Freedom, not here.
> >
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