On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:43:27PM -0400, Loki Ambrodious von Esling wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:01:20PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
you just need common sense
yes, but...
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell
Not targeted to you or most personally but since when does "common sense" and "thinking" mean you HAVE to disagree with the majourity of what everyone else says, and agreeing with it considered "close minded" or "ignorant?"
Dunno, beats me. I didn't claim anything of the sort. In fact, I didn't even use the words close-minded (except in response to gene.c when he accused me of being close-minded) or ignorant in any post recently. I didn't even mention agreeing or disagreeing with the majority. All I did was quote a pithy aphorism because I thought it would make me look big and clever.
I for one, an immigrant to the US from the former East Germany, am tired of being harrassed and called names for being a republican and not denying everything the govt says.
Hmm, and left-wingers don't get called names in the US? Pinko-commie scum etc. I'd imagine where you live in the US would have a lot to do with whether the left-wingers or right-wingers get called names.
I heard someone say something along the lines of "Everything the majourity says is a lie, unless of course it makes them look bad by defualt, then it's the truth in the strictest sense."
Well that's just silly. jon -- "Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them." - Demonax the Cynic