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[] In article <PDS.90Nov19164319@lemming.webo.dg.com> pds@lemming.webo.dg.com (Paul D. Smith) writes:

[]    ...

[]    Boycotts are traditionally a uniquely American (as far as I
[]    know),

[]    ...

[] Sorry for the bluntness, but what a *DUMB* statement. It smacks of
[] ignorance of anything outside of America, not research into the
[] field.

I've received more notes/corrections/comments (rude and otherwise) on
this statement than on the rest of the 150+ lines I wrote.  I find it
unfortunate that, after taking a half-hour out of my day to try to
write a well-thought out article, not many people are half as
interested in the points I made as the mistake, especially when the
mistake is typographical and further, not related in the slightest to
the content of the article.

Please allow me to smooth ruffled feathers all over the globe and
rephrase my statement:

    Boycotts are traditionally a _very_ American (as opposed to
    "un-American", or "anti-American") (as far as I know), ...

[Also, arromdee@cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee) writes:]
[]
[] I recall there's a place in New York where some residents
[] (ironically black) who are boycotting stores run by Koreans out of
[] racial prejudice.  There's also the Arab boycott of Israel (for
[] merely existing).
[]
[] Boycotts are only moral if done for moral reasons.

I think it goes without saying that boycotts aren't moral if
instigated without a moral purpose; what is?  Can you really call any
act "moral" if it is done with amoral goals, even if its result is a
moral one?  Further, I'm sure that in the view of the people
advocating those so-called "amoral" boycotts they are quite moral;
just because they don't have your definition of "moral" doesn't mean
anything.

The questions and positions posed in this article are completely
rhetorical; any replies should be sent to /dev/null (or your machine's
equivalent) and any followups should be directed to alt.religion,
alt.philosophy, alt.up_with_America, or
alt.Americans_are_snotty_bigoted_egotists, none of which I read
anyway, nor do I care what goes on in them ... :-)
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                                                                paul
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