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To: tpaine
You do realize that we'd lose half of FR, don't you?

"Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice!"

81 posted on 11/12/2004 7:57:53 PM PST by FierceDraka ("Megatons Make It Fun!")
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To: FierceDraka
FierceDraka wrote:

Time to cull the herd of the fanatic-gene.

You do realize that we'd lose half of FR, don't you?

"Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice!"

Correct.. -- In defending life & liberty, it's difficult to become to extreme..

--However :

"The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation."
'Thus, we are driven to the conclusion that our trouble is an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.'
-Arthur Koestler-

83 posted on 11/12/2004 8:31:53 PM PST by tpaine (No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)
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