Posted by Bob on 11/05/05 22:13

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:44:36 -0800, "Richard C."
<post-age@spamcop.net> wrote:

>Your kind of thinking is extremely dangerous.

My thinking is not dangerous - it is libertarian. It is your thinking
that is extremely dangerous because you are trying to punish someone
for not taking anything tangible.

>I bet you think that if you rape someone, you have not taken anything from
>them since they still have "it".

No I would not do that. And I certainly would not claim that the
rapist "stole" anything either.


--

"The scientist is possessed by a rapturous amazement at the
harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such
superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking
and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

"This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work,
in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles
of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that
which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages."

--Albert Einstein

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