[extropy-chat] Famous author self destructsin public!Filmateleven.

Olga Bourlin fauxever at sprynet.com
Sun Jun 5 18:05:29 UTC 2005


From: Samantha Atkins 
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:53 AM

>>> ... it seems to follow that no one would be able to change your opinion if they saw you merely as a type and not specifically as Mike Lorrey, because you would just shrug it off and say, and think, 'hey I'm not just a type', I'm Mike Lorrey (and you'd be right). BUT then you throw types around so liberally yourself. You don't seem to cut others the same degree of personal slack that you demand they show you in order to change your view.

>>  On the contrary, I give everyone an equal opportunity to categorize themselves, or at least display their affinities and allegiances. My own views are out there, on the net, on my blog, and have been generally consistent and based on the same principles over a long period of time. That I am Mike Lorrey and not a 'type' evolves from the fact that I don't accept party dogma at face value but try to work out my own opinions from first principles. This has obviously led to strife between myself and some crypto-pacifists who've been trying to enforce their orthodoxy on the  libertarian world.

> What a strange construction.  It appears to say that you give everyone an opportunity to be slotted into  your system of pigeon-holes.   That you grant yourself individual uniqueness outside such characterization but not others.

Right on.  I had observed the same thing, and you have expressed it perfectly, Samantha.

Olga
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