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From: Brian Yeoh <lby3@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Draw Your Own Conclusions!
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:26:58 -0500

On 16 Jan 2001, SOCCERNUMB wrote:

> >As Eco says, let me raise my kid with guns, real live guns.
> >Brian "then teach him to shoot cowboys, racists and plutocrats" Yeoh
> You were doing a credible job skirting the BOP until the end. Because now
> someone could reasonably say "Why cowboys?" "All racists?" or "What exactly
> constitutes a plutocrat, by your definition?"
> for example.

Really simple. All of them. Every last one. Anyone with the vague _hint_ of a Stetson -- bang! Anyone who makes a disparaging remark about anyone else [1] -- bang! Anyone who has a cent, from the richest down -- bang. And why stop there? Since you seem to like reductio ad absurdum arguments so very much -- every last living item on the face of this earth, and then to start working on the non-living items.

Shoot them all! Let un-explicated authority figure sort them out if and when they get there!

Does this foray into absolutism -- which is what, presumably, you wish to reach towards -- answer you?

Brian "do you _ever_ get tired of being a boring[2] prick?[3]" Yeoh

[1] after all, making a comment about anyone else disrespects their uniqueness; and _I_ decide what is disparaging, to forestall that oh so whiny but-but-what-is-a-disparaging-remark remark.

[2] No, nothing to do with the BoR. You're boring. Painfully, utterly, disgustingly boring. A plebian little thing who finds great joy in thinking of itself as a gadfly, realising that in analogia, gadflies get slapped down permanently, something you're unlikely -- curse inanimate lifeforce -- to ever have happen to you here, no matter how much you get under people's skins.

[3] And no, I don't really think that I'm about to write this off to a bad day etc; I really do think that that aspect of yourself you insist on inflicting upon us in AFU is probably the worst you could choose. I'm tired of being a nice reasonable person and ignoring drivel. You happen to have sparked me off with the straw etc, but I _do_ think you're an insufferable prick and _do_ think that this view is not likely to change in the near future.
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Will I ever be able to say, "Today it writes," just like "Today it rains," "Today it is windy"? Only when it will come natural to me to use the verb "write" in the impersonal form will I be able to hope that through me is expressed something less limited than the personality of an individual.

--Italo Calvino, "If on a winter's night a traveler"


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