Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gargoyle.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Newsflash! [Subsidized Education] Message-ID: <145@gargoyle.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 14:16:00 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.145 Posted: Tue Aug 13 14:16:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 01:18:38 EDT References: <955@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1110@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1680@psuvax1.UUCP> <292@ubvax.UUCP> <3257@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Distribution: na Organization: U. of Chicago, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 22 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