[extropy-chat] Politics

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:44 PM 12/23/2005 +0000, Russell Wallace wrote intemperately:

>On 12/23/05, Brett Paatsch 
><<mailto:bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au>bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>Russell, no polity can survive without the rule of law.
>
>That is what this is ultimately about, the rule of law.
>
>What this is actually about is you being the sort of worm that used to 
>lick the feet of Hitler and Stalin when they were in power, and nowadays 
>must fall back on the likes of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Oy! Steady on!

It really does look as if political discussions here, as elsewhere, seem 
doomed to degenerate to this level of abuse even from intelligent listers.

Stop it, before you go blind.

Damien Broderick