g'day,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:41:43 PDT, Peter Deutsch said:
> > Well, if anyone's going to argue against them, shouldn't they at least
> > understand why they're being deployed?? ;-)
>
> I can watch CNN broadcasting pictures of self-flaggelating religious types
> and say "Wow, that's gotta hurt!" without understanding why they do it....
Yeah, but if we want to continue with this religious analogy for a bit
longer, there's plenty of evidence throughout history that failure to
understand why other cultures do what they do can actually actually hurt
*you* in the long run....
- peterd
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Gydig Software
"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a
genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people
who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity."
-- Dave Barry
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