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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (11202)	4/13/2001 11:12:15 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

You said: <<The inability to entertain a variety of points of view is not a mark of a thinking person. The reflexive rejection of patterns of thought one finds alien is a sign of limitation, whether a characteristic of a fundamentalist or an atheist....... >> Steven said: <<I think it's less reflexive rejection than an inability to get certain patterns of thought past an initial probability screen. I find it almost impossible to entertain, for example, the belief that I should invest my entire personal wealth in AZNT (if it still exists). This sort of idea is rejected after the most cursory examination because it fails the most basic initial tests of rationality. >> Your aversion to extreme sport seems to me quite like Steven's initial probability screen. Experience has shown each of you that there's someplace not worth going. Karen