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 =09I'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. =09But 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. =09DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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