To: bayourod; TexasCowboy; Marine Inspector; TomGuy; WindOracle; DumpsterDiver; F16Fighter; Riddick; ...
"Unfortunately some people want resources being used to protect Americans to be diverted to reducing the number of illegal dishwashers and garbage collectors they fear are taking all the good jobs away from them."
I defer you all to a column by Ben MacIntyre, and Professor Harry G. Frankfurt; moral philosopher at Princeton:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1351575/posts
The essence of bullshit is getting away with it, with persuading listeners or readers of a sincerity that is, by definition, phony. The bullshit artist simply does not care about truth: He pays no attention to it at all."
By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of truth than lies are. ~ Harry G. Frankfurt, moral philosopher and professor emeritus at Princeton University: 'On Bullshit' (Princeton University Press).
79 posted on
02/28/2005 11:43:53 PM PST by
FBD
("A nation without borders is not a nation." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: FBD
The essence of bullshit is getting away with it, with persuading listeners or readers of a sincerity that is, by definition, phony. The bullshit artist simply does not care about truth: He pays no attention to it at all."
Sweet.
81 posted on
03/01/2005 8:50:01 AM PST by
JustAnotherSavage
("We are all sinners. But jerks revel in their sins." PJ O'Rourke)
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