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Article #69Re: Hey, I know -- let's threaten the president in e-mail!
From: Chris Lewis
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 03:41
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 03:41
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In article <DRW.94Apr28155532@schauder.mit.edu>, Dale R. Worley <drw@schauder.mit.edu> wrote: | Lord> It is to be noted however, that if a person/nation has any | Lord> respect for another nation, said person will respect that nations | Lord> laws too... but then to be asked is, when did an American show | Lord> respect for anyone who couldn't pound them into dust? :) |Generally, Americans will *respect* the laws of any nation or |"authority" (including their own), but they don't feel obligated to |actually *obey* those laws unless it is personally convenient, or the |authority happens to be pointing a gun at them at that particular |moment. I'm a little puzzled by this post, it appears to be sarcasm directed at the Americans. If someone only obeys laws when personally convenient or when they're being actively coerced, I'd hardly call that "respect". I'd call it criminal and possibly even psychopathic behaviour. Are you sure you mean what you said? -- Chris Lewis: _Una confibula non sat est_ Phone: Canada 613 832-0541 Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Latest psroff: FTP://ftp.uunet.ca/distrib/chris_lewis/psroff3.0pl17/* Latest hp2pbm: FTP://ftp.uunet.ca/distrib/chris_lewis/hp2pbm/*
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