From: Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
Date: Mon Dec 22 1997 - 06:54:57 MST
> Subject: WHY GUNS? -- by L. Neil Smith --
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:57:20 -0500
> From: "L. Neil Smith" <lneil@ezlink.com>
> Subject: Please Pass It On ...
> People accuse me of being a single-issue writer, a single-issue
> thinker, and a single-issue voter, but it isn't true. What I've
> chosen, in a world where there's never enough time and energy, is to
> focus on the one political issue which most clearly and unmistakably
> demonstrates what any politician -- or political philosophy -- is
> made of, right down to the creamy liquid center.
[....]
> Makes voting simpler, doesn't it? You don't have to study every
> issue -- health care, international trade -- all you have to do is
> use this X-ray machine, this Vulcan mind-meld, to get beyond their
> empty words and find out how politicians really feel. About you.
> And that, of course, is why they hate it.
Ignoring the argument about guns, I find this attitude frightening and
cultish. Ignore all fact, don't do any research, just make all your
decisions based on a single binary question. At lease religious
fanatics have to interpret their beliefs. This sort of commandment
requires no thought at all.
-- Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
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