From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 16:19:19 MDT
On 7 Aug 2002 at 12:39, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
> > Have a nice life. I do not feel that being a US citizen is
> > something that
> I
> > should have to shamefacedly admit to as if it were some embarassing
> > secret; I am glad that, in this world, I am a US citizen. And I
> > have
> traveled
> > abroad, although not to the refugee camps you claim to have worked
> > within. And what the american government tells people seems
> > extremely credible compared to the 9/11 conspiracy theories and
> > Jewish blood libels propagated through Islamic presses. It
> > certainly checks out better.
>
> I am a human being who lives on a planet full of human beings but
> because I live in a certain portion of a specific landmass and I
> belong to a certain cult ( the U.S.A.) that makes me inherently better
> then other human beings and my opinon much more valid.
>
No, what validates an opinion is its congruence with the verifiable facts.
In other words, as I said above, whether or not it checks out.
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