Today's Topics:
Think for Yourself
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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 06:21:43 EST
From: Alan Bawden <alan@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Think for Yourself
To: SUBGENIUS@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: 07 Jan 91 12:53:39 EST
From: MTG@csi.compuserve.com
>... So if you -really- wanted to bug Procter & Gamble
>you could easily have done it without wanting for it to show up in
>propaganda from the fuzzy animal liberation front -- although personally I
>hope you have something better to do with your time. ("pets"?)
The American Family Association Journal is "propaganda from the fuzzy
animal liberation front"?...
Sigh. That's not what I meant. The capacity of electronic mail to make
oneself misunderstood continues to amaze me. OK, let me take my tongue out
of my cheek and see if I can avoid replacing it with my foot:
When I used the word "you" in the text quoted above I was addressing the
SubGenius mailing list as a group -- I was not addressing MTG. The
propaganda I was referring to was MTG's message apparently urging that the
SubGenius readership take guerrilla action against Procter & Gamble because
of P&G's position on animal experimentation -- I was not making any
statement whatsoever about the American Family Association Journal.
I have no idea what kind of righteous idiots AFAJ might actually be. I
don't know why they published P&G's 800 number in the first place. I also
have no idea what kind of industrial scum P&G might be. Heck, for all I
know P&G may really be a bunch of sadists who torture thousands of animals
a year in unnecessarily painful experiments that never yield any useful
results.
But my bogon detector goes off when I see the word "pet" used to describe
these animals. I have similar feelings about the words "murder" and
"choice" in another context. I don't like it when people point loaded
words in my direction and it puts me in a mood where I want to shoot back.
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