Re: Jesse Helms is dead



David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[to Frank McQuarry]

I think we're all agreed here that Helms was an evil person
[...]


An interesting (and revealing) difference between liberals and
conservatives is that while conservatives are generally willing
to grant that liberals are good-hearted people with the best of
intentions (despite being naive, overly emotional, and willfully
ignorant), liberals by and large believe conservatives to be evil
people. Which is all the more interesting when you stop to con-
sider that in other contexts, liberals as a group pride themselves
on being inclusive, openminded, and nonjudgmental.

I didn't much like Jesse Helms, either. But I'm willing to
recognize that like Reagan, he was a man of conviction -- even
if (unlike Reagan) his convictions were largely different from
my own.

Whatever happened to simply *disagreeing* with someone, and letting
it go with that? Why is active hatred unto celebrating someone's
death deemed to be necessary?



Geoff

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NoBama 2008
No You Can't!

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