Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: problems with Star Wars #2 (part 1: a side issue) Message-ID: <1630@dciem.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 17:30:39 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1630 Posted: Fri Jul 12 17:30:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 20:18:18 EDT References: <1197@utcsri.UUCP> <5757@utzoo.UUCP> <2165@watcgl.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 25 Summary: >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 {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt