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Re: Question for the sane out there
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Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:11:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

  
   Nor, for that matter, does it necessarily follow that sanity is possessed by Dave!

And your insistence on the distinction implies that there is some doubt as to Dave!’s sanity.

It was a clever, logical twist on the assertion of Dave! (a joke)

   I am prepared to vouch Dave!’s sanity.

Well, from your statement below, that’s not saying much.

  
Then again, I think pretty much everyone is sane.

??? Except those who aren’t?

   Even the folks John habitually thinks of as psychotic seem to make consummate sense to me.

“Consummate sense”? Explain and cite please. Are you saying that the diliberate killing of innocent people makes “consummate sense” to try and get one’s will done? What if that will is a religious, holy one? Essentially, it appears to me that you are endorsing a “2 wrongs make a right” stance. Where is the “consummate sense” in that?

JOHN



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  Consummate sense? I think not!
 
(...) Richard is a nice guy; I'm sure he did no mean that. Personally, I don’t draw a huge distinction between the “deliberate killing of innocent people” and the indiscriminate/disproportionate use of force which results in the “killing of innocent (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: Question for the sane out there
 
(...) Of course it was a joke silly. In the same way as Dave!'s assertion was a joke. But in Lar's special way, its also a jab. And I happenned to be feeling a bit anti-establishment, defender of the oppressed at the time. Its all this reading about (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: Question for the sane out there
 
(...) I'll say that. When "one's will" is the pursuit of basic human rights and every other avenue of approach has been reasonably exploited to no avail. It's not like they just want extra chocolates or something. (...) The right to worship is a (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Question for the sane out there
 
(...) And your insistence on the distinction implies that there is some doubt as to Dave!'s sanity. I am prepared to vouch Dave!'s sanity. (Mwa ha ha ha. MWA HA Ha ha.) Then again, I think pretty much everyone is sane. Even the folks John habitually (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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