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Re: CHAT: closet conlanging >> definitions?

From:John Fisher <john@...>
Date:Thursday, January 14, 1999, 2:18
In message <369CC651.34DD2F1B@...>, Tom Wier
<artabanos@...> writes
>vardi wrote: >>In that sense, how ironic that many of those loudest to >> condemn sodomy (especially among the American Right) are the same who >> promote just such a society, on the pretext of encouraging enterprise or >> protecting the basic human right to own a gun and kill people with it. > >These issues are far more complex than most people are willing to grant, >and IME debates about American political persuasions (when discussed >by non-Americans) tend to jump right into stereotypes, so we had all better >be wary where we tread in these matters.
I would certainly agree that the very last thing we want here is a discussion about guns. I have never found that a discussion about guns on the Internet is anything other than completely pointless. -- John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk Elet Anta website: http://www.drummond.demon.co.uk/anta/ Drummond ro cleshfan merec; fanye litoc, inye litoc