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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: home defense  (& killing deer)
Message-ID: <555@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 02:24:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: rtech.555
Posted: Mon Jul 15 02:24:08 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:58:50 EDT
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> In article <2410@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) writes:
> 
> >I see only two questions on the source of your food (plant or animal):
> >1)	Did you harm or terminate the individual    (plant or animal)?
> >2)	Did you harm or terminate the species?
> >
> >the latter is obviously inexcusable under any circumstances.

etc.

> Pseudo-mystical hogwash...
> ...
> And what makes you think the Universe or Mr. Goodvibes or
> whatever you call it gives a grand hoot about this question?
> ...
> Who's to decide: YOU, Ms. Kirsten?
> ... 
> And does Santa Claus really have a white beard and slide down my
> Chimney every Christmas? Give us a break, Ms. Kirsten. Most of
> your net companions probably do NOT believe in 'reincarnation.'
> ...
> Good Lord. This kind of hazy thinking is as ridiculous and obsessive as 
> the solipsistic hypothesizing many adolescents go through while they're 
> growing up ("Maybe this is all a dream, and I'm the only thing that
> really exists. Or maybe everybody else knows what's REALLY going on
> and they're all conspiring to keep it from me..."). Fortunately, most 
> of them grow out of it.
> ...
> Many of us are fed up
> with the kind of antirational ramblings typified by the rest of your
> article, however. Most of what you say is totally unproveable, gives
> environmentalists AND vegetarians a bad name, and turns off many of
> the people you should be trying hardest to reach.
> 
>                            -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly

I would like to know what Sunny Kirsten did to you to deserve this
of attack.  Her ideas may seem a little far out to you (as some of them
do to me), but she expressed them calmly and non-aggressively.  I see
no reason to bite her head off just because her ideas seem unlikely to
you.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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