From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 12 18:38: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7125714DF9 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:38:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA17158; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:37:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990912193601.04ad0da0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:37:40 -0600 To: Jay Nelson From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field Cc: David Schwartz , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19990912145908.04af73a0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:57 PM 9/12/99 -0500, Jay Nelson wrote: > >Would you apply that statement to human beings in general? If so, who is to > >judge the "quality" of the human being? Or to say that he or she should be > >treated differently -- i.e. deprived of rights -- because he or she is not of > >sufficient "quality?" > >Jeesh, Brett -- stop the socialist propaganda. It's not "socialist propaganda." It's a form of argument known as "reductio ad absurdum," which shows that an idea is absurd by taking it to its logical conclusion. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message