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echo: norml
to: L P
from: DEL FREEMAN
date: 1997-07-28 10:31:00
subject: Surly and suspicious

LP>Ryan Bagueros wrote in a message to All:
LP>same group as socialist/leftist/communist/ authoritarian.   As
LP>Lazarous Long aka Robert Heinlein observed:
LP>"Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist,
LP>fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic
LP>criteria.  The human race divides politically into those who want
LP>people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.  The
LP>former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest
LP>good of the greatest number.  The latter are surly curmudgeons,
LP>suspicious and lacking in altruism.  But they are more
LP>comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
I love this quote and just had to say so. I hope I'm among the latter.
Lord knows I'm surly and suspicious.
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