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To: liberallarry

“I’m just using the article.”

No. The word “responsible” is yours, I’m only explaining how you’re using it and I’m not surprised you avoid acknowledging your fundamental motives.


45 posted on 08/11/2007 5:37:09 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (A leftist will never stand up like a man and admit his true beliefs)
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To: reasonisfaith
The word “responsible” is yours

"Responsible" is an attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff, the knowledgeable from the ignorant. In practice it usually mean the credentialed from the unschooled, the working professional from the amateur dabbler.

It is not a precise term.

Young Einstein (before his Anno Mirabilus) criticized the work of Boltzmann and was even more harsh in his judgement of his professors. He was right....but that was Einstein.

I’m not surprised you avoid acknowledging your fundamental motives

My fundamental belief - not motive - is that our present systems - not system - are unsustainable. They depend on growth and development - of population and raw land - and that cannot continue endlessly in a finite world.

Your fundamental belief is that they can, and that your religious beliefs and imperatives can be sustained in the face of all contrary evidence.

I'll take mine anyday.

As for motives, mine are never entirely clear to me, nor are yours to you, are anyones for that matter. Your claim to be a mind-reader is ridiculous.

Further, when you present me as a doer of hidden evil (because I'm your political opponent) while presenting yourself as the flag-waving heroic defender of the true and the good, you reduce yourself to the utterly contemptible. Unworthy of reasoned discourse.

55 posted on 08/12/2007 9:07:24 AM PDT by liberallarry
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