From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 27 13:31: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A78137B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0530.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.20] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17NfuU-0001cg-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:30:35 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1B75C3.BE0EC012@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:29:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Bowden Cc: George Barnett , bastill@sa.apana.org.au, Sanjay Bhattacharya , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Everybody's right, nobody's wrong (was Re: blah blah blah) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > :One aspect of public philosophy that has always struck me as being > :uniquely American is the idea that the other person's point of view > :has equal validity to your own, regardless of how ridiculous that > :point of view may be. > > Not every American equates one's right to believe in a stupid idea with > all ideas being equally valid Terry. Please watch where you paint with > that broad stroke. 8-). The idea is American, not all Americans have the idea. All trout are fish; not all fish are trout. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message