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to: Bill Lucy
from: Randall Parker
date: 2000-05-13 11:30:02
subject: Re: Are none of us free?

From: Randall Parker 

In , note these
cogitations from blucy{at}mediaone.net Bill Lucy:
> It appears that intellect and ability to think critically don't enter into it
> much at all. All one has to do is look at the work of Werner von Braun. There
> is no doubt in my mind that he was a great intellect and could think
> analytically. Yet he worked within a system where he *saw* slave labor, and
> quite possibly saw people killed.

Sure they do. He had the capacity to realize that what was going on around
him was wrong. He's more morally responsible than a lesser mind precisely
because he ought to have been able to understand better what he was seeing.

> First, please understand I don't give Juan Miguel Gonzalez credit for a great
> mind. He has answered questions about this topic for the American press. He
may
> just be responding to Cuban propoganda about this country, but from what I
> heard he made a case.

I'd be shocked if he hadn't been extensively coached.

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