From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!porges Newsgroups: net.college Title: Re: - (nf) Article-I.D.: inmet.30 Posted: Sun Feb 27 03:22:07 1983 Received: Sun Feb 27 06:25:53 1983 #R:ncsu:-109600:inmet:11800001:000:848 inmet!porges Feb 25 13:28:00 1983 Wait -- "In a rational society the police would have interrupted her speech..." !?!?!?!?! Unless you're being a bit sarcastic (hard to tell over the net) this must mean in a "rational society" everybody would agree with you and this would be enforced by law. I suppose everyone who disagrees with you now is therefore crazy? Welcome to the state-run mental hospital, Mr. Soviet Dissident. And this from a man who once worked for one of the finest software houses the world has ever known... -- Don Porges ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges PS -- sorry if I have misinterpreted your remarks...perhaps your counterclaim is that you distinguish between "rational" and "political" societies. I'm not sure what you mean by that. (In your "rational society" wouldn't there not be any police anyway?)