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To: coug who wrote (36533)	8/29/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

And with a self-satisfied sigh, Coug wraps the Cape of Superiority around his ecru and puce body suit and prepares to rest on his bloated laurels which give out a loud raspberry as he settles down. "A fine evening's work!" he pats himself on the back, quite well pleased with his performance. "I have saved the denizens of DAR from their innocent Saturday night bacchanal. I confused them with illogic and irrational assertions, leaving them scratching their heads and crying, 'Who was that masked cat? And what the hell was he talking about?" And pillowed on the comforting softness of his own peculiar delusions, he drifts off to dream of his next self-righteous Walpurgisnacht. Meanwhile, the happy DARians put the animals back in the barn, cap the magic markers, give the policemen some doughnuts, and wonder why some people so hate seeing others have fun.

To: coug who wrote (36533)	8/29/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: PCModem	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

"...PC I thought I found a cyber friend..." No reason we can't be friends. My friends have always let me know when they disagreed with me. The difference between my friends and my acquaintances in this regard has usually been how they let me know they disagreed with me. BTW, I chose not to address the part of your statement I most disagreed with. I did that on purpose. Mostly because it is an issue that is not that important to me at this time, but also because I did not want to kill the chance for a dialog. What I am defending is human nature's tendency to make assumptions and to base generalizations on them, as well as our right to be wrong. As you said: "If nobody assumes anything, then they must assume all knowledge is known..haha." Which is an assumption necessitated by not assuming anything, which is absurd. We cannot help but make assumptions. That does not mean they are correct. I happen to think that you did make an unwarranted assumption. And one that I don't think is accurate. So what! In this instance I was much more interested in what you said that I agreed with. Which is (putting it in my own words) the deplorable fact that many get away with things that others are in prison for doing. You were faulting those who were boasting of doing such things. I am faulting the criminal justice system specifically and our society as a whole for criminalizing things which are private and victimless (except in some cases in which the perpetrator is also the victim as in drug abuse). Oh, and for the record, I've never done anything with anyone (or anything) in any barnyard. PCM