just curious, but how do i unsubscribe from this list?
>From: Bradford DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Anniversary
>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:23:20 -0700
>
>>Count me in on this.
>>
>>No, let me rephrase it. The US deserved it. That doesn't mean the persons,
>>Americans and otherwise, who were the victims deserved it....
>>
>>
>>kj khoo
>
>There seems to be a problem here. There is no "US" that (a) has a mind, (b)
>is a moral agent, and (c) can be said to "deserve" anything. To say "the US
>deserved it" is a backhanded way of saying that "the people who live in the
>United States and pledge it their allegiance deserve it."
>
>I would call this fuzzy thinking, but that would be an insult to fuzzy
>thinkers everywhere...
>
>
>Brad DeLong
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