Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Noachic laws (disagreeing with Rosen) Message-ID: <20980044@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 15:14:17 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.20980044 Posted: Mon Dec 31 15:14:17 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 06:24:23 EST References: <341@pyuxd.UUCP>, <1307@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 13 Toby Robison makes some good points about how having a standard for outsiders actually protects them to some extent. However, with reference to the Noachian law, note that it actually legitimizes the prejudice that polytheists are bad people and it is therefore legitimate to discriminate against them. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.