Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

pausch@saafNOSPAM.se  (Paul Schlyter)

Regnirps <regnirps@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> pausch@saafNOSPAM.se  (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
 
>>>The other extreme -- moral absolutism, without compromises -- is probably
>>>just as unbearable.  Consider for instance the religious right in the
>>>USA, or their musil fellows in countries like Afghanistan or Iran...
 
>> The so-called religious right (so called because they are originally left 
wing
 
>FYI: left wingers tend to be atheists, not religious....

The Southern Christians in the US were universally either democrat or didn't
vote on principle. They felt voting was part of the world of man, not God. When
the federal government began telling them they could not pray in school and
that theie children would receive sex education against their parents will,
they turned to the Republicans who had always supported States Rights issues
and the rights of individuals over the demands of the federal government.
Unfortunatly, the Repubs have been stuck with these looneys ever since. Main
problem is they are not real conservatives in the old sense or time when
Republicans were called "Classical Liberals".
 
>> or non-participants) is harmless.
 
>Some of them have killed doctors and nurses because these doctors and
>nurses do abortions.  I wouldn't call such murderers "harmless"....

Hardly up to the standards of the Left -- Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot,
Ethiopia ..... 

>And they're also influencing your educational system: in many US
>schools, the biblical creation myth is now given the same weight as
>the scientific hypotheses....

The NEA union runs the schools despite the efforts of the religious community. 
I was raised a Calvinist and evolution was not taught in school yet I am a
scientist and suspect there is something to evolution. Don't know exactly what
since we don't have time machines, but there is plenty of evidence. Recall the
cries that we must have computers in the schools. There were none when I was in
school yet I design computers. Obviously they place too much emphasis on the
value of our ridiculous public school system.

>Watch out!  They're not as harmless as you think....

Harmless. Philosophically confused and quite harmless. Hated by Hollywood and
charicaturized as evil, but harmless.
 
>> They can't even agree among themselves. It's the Left that knows how
>> to organize and run your life.
 
>:-) ....you're still afraid of communism I see.....

When was the last time you went to Cuba or Ethiopia?
 
>>>As usual, a sensible middle ground is best.
 
>>>BTW, in the USA it's considered OK to kill people in some
>>>circumstances: if the government and/or the so-called "justice
>>>system" does the killing.  Capital punishment has a lot of supporters
>>>in the US -- so obviously there are many americans who think it's
>>>right to kill some unpopular people.
 
>> In my state you don't need the government. You can use deadly force in
>> self defense or if you witness a fellony assault in progress and come to
>> the aid of the victim or if "a reasonable person" would feel their life
>> is in danger. The State has a "shall issue" law that requires the police
>> to issue a concealed pistol permit to anyone who can pass some simple
>> requirments.
 
>> In Vermont you don't even need a permit and have close to total freedom.
>> Nearby in Massachusetts (Ted Kennedy land) you have to have a permit to
>> OWN a pistol, rifle, shotgun, BB gun, or air gun.
>> 
>> It varies from state to state. In some you can defend property with deadly
>> force, as is only proper.
> 
>I guess you gave some good examples of moral relativism......

Yes, the unfortunate result of "a sensible middle ground".

Charlie Springer

PS. According to a new report, American doctors accidentally kill 700,000
people a year. Thats the accidents! So, physicians are  9,000 times more
dangerous than gun owners. 80,000,000 gun owners and 1,500 adcidental deaths a
year.