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To: Father Terrence who wrote (37840)	5/11/1999 1:53:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

That's an idiotic idea. Knowledge is more important than intelligence. Aritotle used his excellent brain to reach many stupid conclusions. I would not have him launch my space probes (they might crash his chrystal spere). I would not have him order my state. The slaves would get in the way. Dumb. Ignorant. Wrong-headed. Give me an MIT freshman any day (picked at random!).

To: Father Terrence who wrote (37840)	5/11/1999 6:15:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 108807

Most people today are not smarter than Aristotle. Most people have studied more things, but they do not know how to think or reason things out at a higher level. That is why most people today want the government -- or someone else -- to do their thinking for them. An idea that would have appalled Aristotle to a degree and did appall Ayn Rand. Terry, honey, you haven't studied your Aristotle in a while. Consider the unnecessary intellectual difficulties posed by purely deductive reasoning. Ask Chuzz--if you can manage to do so without picking a quarrel--about where it starts to come apart at the seams. As to what you imply in the rest of this statement, it is apparently true that all too many people want someone else to think for them. On the other hand, there are thinking people who cede certain activities to an overarching authority--example in our own childhood: the production for mass availability of the polio vaccine. You and I may question whether the social benefits really do outweigh the costs to individual self-realization, but these are real issues and cannot be swatted away like so many flies. Address please.