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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (35889)4/29/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Of course it has occurred to me that other people might be interested in something that does not interest me. You are most welcome to discuss whatever you would like, Joan. I was simply drawing a distinction between the essay you cited and the subject I was addressing--libertarianism as it impacts on different income groups and on the planet itself. That involves me on an emotional level.

Libertarianism compared and contrasted to liberalism in a historical context is an intellectual exercise to me, because it exists in the past and has no relevance that I can see to contemporary class warfare, ecological destruction, or other planetary issues I wanted to talk about when I was involved in that discussion. I wanted to discuss the effects of libertarianism in concrete, graphic terms, not abstract ones.

You clearly said "IF you are interested", when you wrote this sentence:

<<If you are interested, here is a rather nice discussion of the evolution of liberalism (from the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy):

plato.stanford.edu;

I was simply indicating that I was not. I did not realize that my being honest would offend you.
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