On 01-11-98 Frank Masingill wrote to David Martorana... 
 
        Hello Frank, 
  
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 FM> DM> business.  The family itself is the prime ideology of our 
 FM> DM> species. When ideology breaks down we have chaos. 
   
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 FM> Victims of 
 FM> the holocaust or of the Gulag (described by Solzhenitzen) would 
 FM> certainly be 
 FM> wide-eyed at such a benign definition.  See my response in a longer 
 FM> message. 
 
  Your logic seems to me to be similar to those who object to 
hand guns.  They associate the use of hand guns with murder 
responding by outlawing hand guns.  However, they forget  
"guns" can be used for "good" as in defeat of Germany, Iraq, 
self defense, etc.  
  Perhaps, ideology, much like hand guns, isn't necessarily 
"bad", unless used inappropiately, Holocaust, or in the case 
of hand guns, murder. 
  I am not sure, I like this analogy, but I hope it expresses 
the central point. 
 
Take care, 
John 
 
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