From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 11:43:44 MST
Michael S. Lorrey wrote,
>Making speech such as this criminal is, in fact, thought
> crime.
The thought police have been active on US campuses for decades. Nothing new
there. Thought police are often referred to as "politically correct" in the
popular press. The Left apparently approves of criminalizing thought more
than does the Right. I find this interesting since the Left tries to pass
itself off as "liberal" or "progressive." I guess that means they want a
liberal amount of thought crime suppression and more progress toward a
police state.
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
"If you go back a hundred years," he explains, "one of the biggest
scientific questions was 'what is life?' And one of the most prominent
theories had to do with vitalism--some substance, some thing that is
transmitted from cell to cell, animal to animal, that is the essence of
life. Well, you don't hear anybody talking about vitalism anymore. We've
come far enough to see all the mechanics--we've seen how DNA works, we've
seen all the pieces of the cell, and we don't have need for a hypothesis
like vitalism." So it will go, Sejnowski suspects, with consciousness.
(Phlogiston, incidentally, refers to a theoretical substance that people
once sought in combustible material, thinking it made up the "substance" of
fire.)
http://www.doubletwist.com/news/columns/article.jhtml;$sessionid$WLUGKNIAAA5
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