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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Newsflash! [Subsidized Education]
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 14:16:00 EDT
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Summary: Cool out, JoSH

JoSH sez:

>   Statists like yourself, who want to
>reduce everybody to a kind of slavery to a massive bureaucracy, would
>naturally have a hard time understanding this.  [etc.]

JoSH, this kind of comment is out of line.  If you ever stopped
sneering at socialists long enough to understand what we are saying,
you might discover that we don't by any means deserve your contempt.
Robert Nozick, at least, takes the writings of socialists seriously
-- so should you.  On the other hand, if we really don't have
anything worthwhile to say, perhaps you should stick to moderating
fa.poli-sci, a.k.a. *Libertarian Review*.

Now that I am very old and wise, I understand that the best way to
win people to my point of view is to try, as sympathetically as
possible, to understand *their* point of view, and even to take into
account the (extremely remote but conceivable) possibility that I may
have something to learn from them, rather than to attribute to them
disreputable motives.

Richard Carnes