From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 15:28:58 MST
> ...If you replaced the word "socialists" with "women" or "blacks"
> in any one of your postings on the subject they'd be offensive;
> I don't see why you should get off the hook just for picking on a
> group that isn't flavour of the month among libertarian extropians.
The flaw in this argument should be pretty obvious: one does not
/choose/ to be black or female. One /does/ choose to support
socialism, and to a lesser extent, one's religion (though there's
a lot of parental/cultural influence there). It is just and right
to hold people accountable for their freely-made choices. They are,
in fact, the only thing you /can/ rightly judge someone's
character by.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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