Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Who said... Message-ID: <670@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 15:51:27 EDT Article-I.D.: cybvax0.670 Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:51:27 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:52:46 EDT References: <770@lll-crg.ARPA> <527@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1386@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 In article <1386@uwmacc.UUCP> rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) writes: > In article <527@brl-tgr.ARPA> scooper@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephan Cooper) writes: > >..and who said... > > > >"I utterly disagree with everything that you are > >saying, but I am prepared to fight to the death for > >your right to say it." > > Voltaire, the jerk. Yet another example of "nicey-nice" thinking. > It is this sort of attitude which lets psychopaths "express" > themselves right up to the moment when innocent people die. > The Rev. Jim Jones, for example. At the risk of taking something that should have had a smiley seriously.... The alternative is the sort of attitude that lets ONLY the psychopaths express themselves. Innumerable fascists, dictators, and despots for example. -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh