On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:49:24AM -0400, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> Charlie Stross wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 08:28:26AM -0400, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> > > As I said, we haven't offed Marxists here since Julius and Ethel
> > > Rosenberg. American Marxists are free to live. I'm not being patriotic,
> > > I'm being anti-communist. There is a difference.
> >
> > Yeah: like the difference between being a good German and being a Nazi.
> > Thanks for clearing up the issue for me.
> >
> > > I don't advocate it. I encourage commie hunting by anyone who wants to
> > > participate. It should be open season as far as I'm concerned. Why
> > > should government get all the fun?
> >
> > You advocate killing people because of their beliefs, without reference to
> > their actions.
> >
> > I can't think of any human behaviour more quintessentially anti-extropian
> > than that. Or more reprehensible, for that matter.
> >
> > Again, thank you for clearing up my last remaining misconceptions about
> > you -- that you might be a civilized human being with whom it was worth
> > engaging in intellectual debate. I don't run a killfile, but if I did, you'd
> > be in it.
>
> I would have hoped you'd have a better sense of humor than that.
Why? I didn't find it at all funny.
Martin
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