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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Premises,Premises,Premises,... (
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 11:28:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 11:28:24 1985
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
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In article <27500083@ISM780B.UUCP> jim@ISM780B.UUCP writes:
>
>>What about the Hell's angels.
>>Their morality seems
>>to be based on doing what is 'bad'.
>
>No, their morality (at least as distorted by the media; did you ever *meet*
>a Hell's Angel?) seems to be based on what you consider bad.  Hell's angels
>consider various forms of conformity with society's norms as bad; they
>consider choppers, macho, beer drinking, carrying knifes, fighting for their
>honor, tattoos, and donating tons of children's toys as good.  If they say,
>"yeah, he's really baaaad", they consider being "baaaad" as good, but they
>don't consider bad (as defined within their own morality) as being good
>(as defined within their own morality).  That is why you had to put `bad'
>in quotes.  The mistake comes from giving what *you* think is `bad'
>special status.
>
>-- Jim Balter (ima!jim)


No, that isn't what I meant.  Since I haven't actually met a hell's angel 
(although I have met some Bikers) I may be wrong, but my impression is
that if you ask a Hell's Angel "Are you a good person?" he's likely
to answer, "No, I'm a mean son of a bitch".  And be proud of it.

-- 

Sport Death,
Larry Kolodney
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