eric@snark.UUCP (06/15/87)
In my response to my article summarizing the hereditarian and environmentalist positions and concluding with support for a moderate hereditarian position, a well-known net.flamer replied by e-mail: > This totally cracked me up. You end up plunking for the reading that is > most congenial with your politics. Hah! I replied: > I'd be interested to know why you think that. I said that I found the > hereditarian case unpleasant, and I do. It would be more congenial to > my political beliefs to think that all human beings are potentially > equal at a high level of rationality. > > Perhaps you're one of those people that believes libertarianism is > some kind of mutant conservative/reactionary ideology (some of > Clayton Cramer's postings could certainly have reinforced such a mistake). I am posting this because I think there are issues of wider interest here. I believe it's a common error to lump libertarians with conservatives, and welcome the chance to demonstrate the falseness of that assumption. More generally, I'm interested in the effect of politics on world-view and vice-versa. I would welcome non-flaming discussion on both topics. I have directed followups to talk.politics.misc. -- Eric S. Raymond UUCP: {{seismo,ihnp4,rutgers}!cbmvax,sdcrdcf!burdvax}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718