Re: Certainty, Experiments & Facts

Reilly Jones (70544.1227@CompuServe.COM)
28 Sep 96 02:56:50 EDT

Eric Watt Forste wrote 9/27/96: <Bobbers on the waves are not likely to send
SWAT teams crashing through my door, nor are they likely to organize for higher
taxes and more regulations, so I'm reluctant to condemn them as harshly as you
do.>

Rather than condemn them, which, IMO, is a form of blaming the victim, I would
see everyone living at maximum personal extropy. The bobbers are called to stop
bobbing, which only plays into the hands of the elites, who desire servility
below them. Tolerance of servility does not contribute to this.

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