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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:15:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        ac199@hwcn.org
Cc:        jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, jamie@itribe.net, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, pechter@lakewood.com, softweyr@xmission.com, freebsd-chat@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FTC regulating use of registrations
Message-ID:  <199707232315.QAA21932@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970723173426.17671E-100000@ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Jul 23, 97 05:48:42 pm

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Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> >
> > 	"credit to their family" means, to me at least, that
> > 	other people are favorably impressed by their honesty
> > 	and integrity and humaneness.  someone that other might
> > 	use as a role model.
> 
> I prefer the phrase that you used in a private email, "so that they

	sorry, meant to send that to the list as well.

> look good" [to [a `just'] society].  It's the term "credit to their
> family" which conjures-up, in my mind, at least, images of parents
> who are more concerned about looking like good parents than being
> good parents.  These are a dangerous type of parents.

	yes, the connotations are there.  i need to be more careful.
> 
> 
> > 	best to leave it.  some religions have beliefs/practices that
> > 	are incompatible with other religions.....we dont need that
> > 	blood shed here.
> 
> Well, it might've gotten off-topic.  :)  Religion does relate to
> raising children in at least so much as choosing the "right thing"
> (eg. "raise them so that they look good to society").

	agreed.  i would like to stop short of trying to characterize
	what is just...just look athe mess that john rawls got himself
	into despite his harvard professorship.
jmb



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