[lit-ideas] Re: So GOP stands for?
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- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:47:11 EST
First smile I've had today. I think this is why I keep on the list-serve.
Julie Krueger
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Quoting Steve Chilson <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> I'm reminded
> that almost no matter the opinion one expresses, there will be a counter
> opinion.
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I don't think so.
Walter C. Okshevsky
MUN
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>
> Under these guidelines it always amazes me to come across someone
> without confidence in themselves, in their ideas. Inevitably, no matter
> how half-cocked or ridiculous one's idea is, one will find others who
> believe in the same thing. I mean think about the sickest thing you can
> think of and imagine that there are probably millions before you who not
> only thought it, but did it.
>
> What we're all left with is dealing with our own unoriginality, victims
> of time.
>
> On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:26:23 -0500, "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> said:
> > Socrates:
> > “…justice is to perform one’s own task, and not to
meddle
> with that of
> > others.” In _The Republic_
> >
> > John Stuart Mill:
> > Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems
> > good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the
> > rest.
> >
> > The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own
> > good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of
> > theirs.
> > _On Liberty_ (1859)
> >
> >
> > Steve Chilson wrote:
> >
> > >I often wish people would just leave other people alone,
> > >get on with their bloody lives personally and leave each to their own
> > >moral dilemmas and how to resolve them. But that wouldn't be very
> > >realistic, would it then?
> > >
> >
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