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Opinion Journal ^
| 3/24/2004
| BRENDAN CONWAY
Posted on 03/23/2004 10:21:29 PM PST by Utah Girl
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A pair of liberal profs want to pay us to "deliberate." No thanks.
The chairman of Duke's philosophy department recently told a student reporter why the university hires so few conservative professors: It prefers smart ones. "If, as John Stuart Mill said, stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire," he said. "Members of academia tend to be a bit smarter than average."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; academicmorons
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To: Utah Girl
"Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted moralityand that my sanction was its only power. I saw that evil was impotentthat evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-realand that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. Just as the parasites around me were proclaiming their helpless dependence on my mind and were expecting me voluntarily to accept a slavery they had no power to enforce, just as they were counting on my self-immolation to provide them with the means of their planso throughout the world and throughout men's history, in every version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collective countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as their own destroyers, who transfuse to evil the blood of their virtue and let evil transmit to them the poison of destruction, thus gaining for evil the power of survival, and for their own valuesthe impotence of death. I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was 'No.' "I quit that factory. I quit your world, I made it my job to warn your victims and to give them the method and the weapon to fight you. The method was to refuse to deflect retribution. The weapon was justice."
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03/24/2004 1:45:48 PM PST
by
Mr.Atos
("No thanks! I choose life!" - Sid the Sloth)
To: moonhawk
Oh, I could go on and on about physics and creation and evolution and Einstein and The Evidential Power of Beauty.......
but I wouldn't want to bore anyone, now would I?
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03/24/2004 8:03:57 PM PST
by
packing heat
(I wonder if George Clinton and Bill Clinton are related.)
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