-=> BOB KLAHN wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 BK>>  If Heinlein really believed in what he appeared to, he could
 BK>>  stand by and watch a child die and not believe anyone was
 BK>>  obligated to do anything.

 DD> Apparently you haven't read Heinlein extensively. I have
 DD> read every bit of his writing I have been able to track
 DD> down - and NOWHERE in those writings does he state nor
 DD> imply anything close to what you claim in your statement.

 BK>  I don't recall which book but he had a discussion of paying tax
 BK>  for air in a moon city. His attitude was, apparently, if you can
 BK>  pay for the air you don't get to breathe it.

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress ... and elsewhere in that same novel he makes the
point, more than once about protecting children. If you got from a statement
about paying for the air you breath in a location where it is not supplied by
nature to being able to "stand by and watch a child die and not believe anyone
was obligated to do anything" then I am not following your logic or thought
processes at all. 
 
 DD> Most of the time you make sense in your postings. But, not
 DD> in this one.

 BK>  I have read just aboutg everything of Heinlein's. Though I'm not
 BK>  as fanatical as my brother, who will *NOT* give up a Heinlein
 BK>  book. I gave most of mine to the library.

I don't give up any book voluntarily unless it is something that I will *NEVER*
re-read.
 
 BK>  Simack, Norton, and a few others I keep. Of course, Douglas
 BK>  Adams, but he only wrote one trilogy of any significance. Though
 BK>  the fifth book of the trilogy it's best if we pretend it never
 BK>  happened.

I gave up on Ms Norton back in the 1960s. There is much better fantasy (such as
by Esther Friesner) available for my money. Cliffie Simak and several others of
the "Golden Age of Pulp Sci-Fi" are keepers. But, a lot of that era is best
used for landfill and erosion control.  Bv)=

ENJOY!!!

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