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

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Mon Jun 6 17:38:16 UTC 2005


On Jun 6, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Charlie Stross wrote:

> See "British", above, and consider the possibility that a Manichean  
> view of the world ain't part of my outlook. Britain and the US are  
> two nations divided by a linguistic sar-chasm.
>
> (Although if I was going to try and bolt together a post-religious  
> rationalist ethical framework based on game theory with a side- 
> order of utilitarianism, I think I'd probably retain the word  
> "evil" to describe ideologies or beliefs that amount to repeatedly  
> smacking yourself in the face with a two-by-four. And the Christian  
> fundamentalists are a good fit for that pattern of behaviour.)
>

LOL.  Thank you! You have lifted my entire day.

- s



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