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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
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:51:27 1985
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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.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh