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Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: A question about the "Freeze"
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Date: Sun, 11-Mar-84 12:23:30 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 11 12:23:30 1984
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I've asked this question of a number of active Nuclear Freeze supporters
and have yet to receive a good reply. The responses I've gotten were more
fashionable rhetoric than reason. Let me say right out front that mainly
because of those kind of responses I am leaning away from supporting the
freeze. A good pragmatic argument on this and a couple other questions
could sway me either way.

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The question:

Why has the Freeze aroused so much public support while Reagan's "Zero
Option" went over like a lead balloon? If we all agree that nuclear
war is a clear and present danger to this planet, then isn't eliminating
the nuclear weapons in Europe better than freezing their number?
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I don't consider a diatribe against any particular public figure as a
reasonable answer. Nor am I interested in an assortment of nuclear horror
stories, I've heard them. Its not necessary to convince me that nuclear
war is a bad thing.

I ask this question in a spirit of open minded and constructive discussion.
How about some answers in the same spirit.

                                           Larry Riffle
                                           RBD@PSUVM.BITNET