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To: TigerPaw who wrote (35687)	2/25/1999 11:59:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

As a fan of diversity, I wonder what your opinion is of wives throwing themselves on their husbands funeral pyres? The stoning of adulterers? Clitorectomies? Ritual suicide? Concubinage? Human sacrifice? I like a variegated world, too, and civilization has developed, in part, through cross- cultural fertilization, but there are limits to the charms of diversity, and sometimes someone has to do some compelling, because of practical consequences.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (35687)	2/25/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

I just don't like it when a group tries to compel everyone else to conform to their ideas. I'm with you on this point. That is why the PC crowd, Hillary's health care fix, PETA, income redistribution, NEA funding, etc. are so abhorrent to me. But I found the discussion on radicalism in the article fascinating. Have you considered that your derogatory use of the word in describing republicans is a misappropriation of the real meaning? To wit: Daly is a renowned ''radical-feminist'' theologian and philosopher, a pioneer in the field. The term radical, which Daly says has lost its real meaning in contemporary use, refers to getting ''at the root'' of what is wrong with society.