Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:25:16 -0700 From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> To: <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <paul@freebsd-services.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010927192517.AAA2063@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> In-Reply-To: <20010927205547.B69066@lpt.ens.fr>
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>My point is, it's meaningless to say "communism says this". You could say >"some communists say this", or "this book by a communist leader says this", >but there is no Bible for communism -- unless it's the Communist Manifesto, >as I said. > >R I'm not sure how you think that conflicts with anything I said. In any event, I don't agree with it. I think it's pretty clear what someone means when they say "communism says this". They mean that whatever they referred to as "this" is either explicitly part of communist ideology, implied by it, or believed by most people they classify as communist. Obviously, the criteria for what constitutes communist ideology may differ between people. But what I'm sensing from your other replies is that you hold the view that no ideology can be judged because in order to do so, you must hold some standard and obviously any ideology will pass its own standard and it's not fair to judge one ideology by the standards of another. If you hold this view, you've fallen for the argument that all beliefs are deserving of equal credit simply because someone holds them. Half the time, this leads to rejecting rational arguments with the equivalent of "that's what you think" and the other half the time, it leads to rendering things beyond question simply because that's what someone thinks. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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