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To: hedgetrimmer; softengine
People need to vote their conscience. The fear factor argument is getting old.

Call it old as you may but some truths are timeless whether you want to admit to their wisdom or not.

A conscience that lives contentedly knowing it is helping the enemy is about as valuable as the conscience of any Nazi who ever lived who tried to hide behind his consciencious attention to "duty."

Such an appeal to one's conscience is not only meaningless, it is often harmful. An observer might fairly wonder what sort of "conscience" such a person has to begin with.

465 posted on 02/03/2004 9:05:31 PM PST by Agamemnon
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To: Agamemnon
And don't forget that little rule about how the first person to call his opponent a Nazi automatically loses the argument.
467 posted on 02/03/2004 9:14:15 PM PST by inquest (The only problem with partisanship is that it leads to bipartisanship)
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