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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: problems with Star Wars #2 (part 1: a side issue)
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 17:30:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 17:30:39 1985
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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>Ignorance anywhere bothers me.  But some of the "peace movement" people
>really do not appear to have the faintest idea how these systems work;
>their opposition seems to arise from either ideological considerations
>or herd instinct, rather than the issues themselves.  I emphasize (as I
>should have before) that not all "peace movement" people are like this.
>The percentage is high enough to be troubling, though.

As I just posted in a different context (lotteries), most PEOPLE are like
this.  Ask, though, whether a person is more likely to be intelligent
given that s/he belongs to the "peace movement" or to the populace in
general (or to the populace matched for socioeconomic or educational
background).  The fact that a lot of people cotton on to something
fashionable doesn't make it wrong (or right).

As for whether people support some course of action for ideological
reasons or because of the issues themselves, well, that seems to be a
non-question.  One's ideological background is a strong determiner of
how one will react to a controversial issue.  Neither can be in play
without the other.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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