On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 04:36 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> There is a difference between upholding principles and fundamentalism.
now there's an orwellian twist if i ever saw one. extremism in the defense of liberty is, apparently, no vice . . .
> The former takes common sense into account, the latter does not. It is
> easy to preach from the campus ivory tower about principles but that
> does not help much in upholding them. The German Left sticked to their
> principles in 1930 and let Hitler take power. That is fundamentalism -
> "I will not sacrifice my principles no matter what." It is often more
> dangerous or hypocritcal than spineless drifting with the trend. At
> least the latter do nor take a high moral ground and sermonize others.
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> Wojtek
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