From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!genradbo!mitccc!zrm
Newsgroups: net.college
Title: Blind to reason
Article-I.D.: mitccc.356
Posted: Sat Feb 19 17:28:53 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 12:02:29 1983
References: yale-com.925

Mr. Glasser:
You admit the students' heckling to the realm of "reason" by comparing
their attitude toward Mrs. Kirkpatrick with your atitude toward a man
whose evil is incomparable to any in history. Does this make their
attitude, or your argument, reasonable? What are you trying to say?

What it seems to me you are saying is that it is OK for these students
not to be reasonable. If that is what you are saying, the point becomes
as difficult to argue as a matter of faith. You have decided they are
right and nothing will change your mind.

Reason is a very cold blooded thing, and if, say, Yassir Arafat were to
give a lecture in this country I imagine there are people who would
consider it their duty to behave in an extremely unreasonable way toward
Mr. Arafat. It is the experience of those persons families, friends and
countrymen that drives them to their unreasonableness. But those
students in Berkeley acted in ignorance. They were not blinded by rage
but by stupidity.

Cheers,
Zig