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Re: Another factor in the right wing lunatic asylum--
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Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:50:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
Again, it isn't the truth that we should protect--according to 'the right'--we
should protect our right to not be laughed at, or even taken to task when we're
wrong and stupid, 'cause y'know--the first ammendment and all...

I'd love to get on this bandwagon, but I have known more than a few left-wingers
who put their head firmly in the sand on many issues.  I think the desire to
want a happy fantasy rather than the truth is a human quality, not a
conservative/right or progressive/left quality.

I've seen it said: the pursuit of truth is the call of many but the practice of
few.

-Lenny



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  Re: Another factor in the right wing lunatic asylum--
 
(...) Aint that the truth. ROSCO (17 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Another factor in the right wing lunatic asylum--
 
(URL) was a great read-- "Two and Two Make 30,000 Winston Smith, the hero of Orwell's 1984, asserts at one point that freedom is the freedom to say that two and two make four. In other words, the ability to state that there are facts which are true (...) (17 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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