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>From: trivedi@rabi.uchicago.edu (Anil K Trivedi)
Subject: Re: An apology to Mr. Krishnaprased
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1992 08:38:29 GMT

freitag@elrond.toppoint.de (Claus Schoenleber) writes:
>trivedi@rabi.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi) writes:
>>...
>> I personally appreciate Saddam Hussein's even grander tendency to take
>> "risks", althought frankly I dont understand why he does things that way.
>> ...
>
>This is far beyond any matter of taste and has nothing to do with defending
>"innocent people" or with academic discussion style

The previous poster's point, which you have edited out, was that people
who do outrageous things might be "appreciated" because in doing so they
are taking "risks". However, IMHO it ought to matter if such outrageous
acts are at the expense of some innocent people; that was the whole point
of my remark.

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