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>From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: NI failure
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Date: 14 May 92 15:50:36 GMT
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In article <1992May14.000639.17503@news.media.mit.edu>, minsky@media (Marvin Minsky) writes:
|>Most religions?  I'm really not sure what metric you are using here, but
|>in the one I consider standard English (discrete), I'd say your evaluation
|>is utter rubbish.

|Hmm.  Let's vote.  I think the Rushdie matter takes care of one big
|one.  (Yes, that's from the "radical" wing, but I don't see the others
|coming to his defense -- which, according to some moral beliefs (that
|is, mine) is worse, worse, worse.) The inquisition and the crusades
|shows what another one will do from time to time.  I seems to recall
|similar stuff in a lot of other Sagas.  

You're up to 2 and counting....
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)


