From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 27 19:11:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6917837B409 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B0A41812FF; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:40:26 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:40:26 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jamie Bowden , 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) Message-ID: <20020628021026.GC90848@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3D1B75C3.BE0EC012@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D1B75C3.BE0EC012@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Thursday, 27 June 2002 at 13:29:55 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that this means that the idea is uniquely (US) American, or even that it originated there. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message