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