anand@utastro.UUCP (Anand Sivaramakrishnan) (03/25/85)
I hate to sound like a wimp, but it takes some courage to do so, especially after seeing some of the flames! Don Seeley has a very strong point in his recent article on the six pack as a unit of distance. Some of the articles on this topic (especially the flames directed at wimps like Don Seeley and me from 'get-off-our-case'ers) suggest that Don Seeley's posting be uncomfortably close to the bone for some netters. I'm shocked at the attitude in the US towards drunk driving. I am glad to see that even people brought up in this atmosphere (of mixing alcohol and internal combustion on the roads) feel the same sense of shock. Talking in such a light-hearted way about six-packs as a unit of distance is a bit like talking about bullets as a method of taking a census of Jews, at least to me (or Bangladeshis or Ugandans or some group that has been a victim of genocide). " I never meant that one shoots every person in the census! "... Would you belive that claim?