RE: Dyson (Was: Paths to Uploading)

Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:21:13 -0800 (PST)

---Billy Brown <bbrown@conemsco.com> wrote:
>
> Terry Donaghe wrote:
> > We can forgive him for advocating the use of violence against the
very
> > ones that support society (those that produce)??????? I'll have to
> > think very hard about that one..
>
> Rare is the man who can see one false meme in his own upbringing.
Rarer
> still is he who sees more than one of them. No one can spot them all.
>
> If we condemn Einstein because he failed to see the fallacies of the
> mainstream of thought in a field he did not even practice, we are
expecting
> perfection. We might as well condemn all ancient Athenians who
didn't rail
> against slavery, or all medieval scholars who failed to fight for
women's
> rights.
>
> I'm sure future generations will see laughable fallacies and cruel
injustice
> in practices that we find unobjectionable, as well. I hope they
won't hold
> us to your standard.
>
> Billy Brown, MCSE+I
> bbrown@conemsco.com

>
Ok, ok... You're right. I just got a little steamed...

==
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