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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > Christopher Lannan wrote:
> > I guess my point here is that words like "obscene" "pornography" and
> > "decent" say more about the speaker than the thing the speaker is describing.
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> I'm not so sure (see my post above). Can't I come up with an idea so obscene
> that every normal, decent human being will say, "That's sick!"
But this, too, is circular, since your question implies that a human being
who doesn't say "That's sick!" is not normal and decent.
Dave!
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| (...) I'm not so sure (see my post above). Can't I come up with an idea so obscene that every normal, decent human being will say, "That's sick!" -John (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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