Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!qantel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!jeff 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 References: <1195@utcsri.UUCP> <962@mhuxt.UUCP> <1212@utcsri.UUCP> <2410@sun.uucp> <288@rti-sel.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 47 > 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 {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff