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To: Ish who wrote (87442)	1/18/2002 6:44:41 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

OH please with all the shit you've said about me, you think I want to hear anything from your sorry unhappy ass? No, in case you are too stupid to figure out the answer. Good deeds my ass. You are seriously confused, you bitter, unhappily married, childless old fart. Have a good day now.

To: Ish who wrote (87442)	1/21/2002 4:49:14 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

May I be cynical for a bit? I hope you don't mind, but with X the Unknown's latest barrage of lecherous opuscula, I can't resist the urge to make a few cynical comments. What follows is a call to attention for those of us who care -- a large enough number to contribute to the intellectual and spiritual health of the body politic. The fact that self-pitying smart alecks who produce a new generation of unimaginative mouthpieces for rapacious animalism whose opinions and prejudices, far from being enlightened and challenged, are simply legitimized will, hopefully, eventually be replaced by people who believe in freedom, justice, and the pursuit of personal growth is distressing, to say the least. She somehow manages to get away with spreading hyperbole (honor counts for nothing), distortions (black is white and night is day), and misplaced idealism (her principles enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness). X practically breaks her arm patting herself on the back when she says, "It takes courage to go down into the muddy trenches and rally for a cause that is completely void of moral, ethical, or legal validity." As if that were something to be proud of. If her remonstrations aren't empty-headed, I don't know what is. Almost every day, she outreaches herself in setting new records for arrogance and controversy. It's honestly breathtaking to watch her. I have two words to say about X's excuses: wayward poppycock. X has no evidence or examples to back up her point, as if it made any difference. We don't need to demonize her; X helps that herself, and furthermore, she should clarify her point, so people like you and me can tell what the heck she's talking about. Without clarification, her views sound lofty and include some emotionally charged words but don't really seem to make any sense. I imagine that I do not propose a supernatural solution to the problems we're having with her. Instead, I propose a practical, realistic, down-to-earth approach that requires only that I make X's cruel obiter dicta understood, resisted, and made the object of deserved contempt by young and old alike. It may seem simple enough, but I oppose X's statements because they are morally questionable. I oppose them because they are untrustworthy. And I oppose them because they will spread hatred, animosity, and divisiveness before you know it. X dreams of a time when she'll be free to deny us a cultural voice. That's the way she's planned it, and that's the way it'll happen -- not may happen, but will happen -- if we don't interfere, if we don't put to rest the animosities that have kept various groups of people from enjoying anything other than superficial unity. We need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with her. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that if she can one day compromise the free and open nature of public discourse, then the long descent into night is sure to follow.