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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=sjatkins@mac.com
href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">Samantha Atkins</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:53 AM</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV></FONT>>>> ... 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.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> </FONT>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<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>libertarian world.</DIV>
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<DIV>> 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.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Right on. I had observed the same thing,
and you have expressed it perfectly, Samantha.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Olga</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>