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Piltdown
Skeptic Friend
USA
312 Posts |
 Posted - 03/25/2002 : 03:12:30
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I'm notoriously bad at this kind of philosophical discussion, but personal freedom is a kind of ultimate issue with me. I see it in specific terms: I want to be able to eat dead cows if I feel like it, smoke cigarettes in my own home, drink coffee even if it's bad for me, and call a horsethief a horsethief and a quack a quack; all without some neurotic power-freak telling me that this is forbidden for the greater good (always meaning the greater power of power freaks). I also want to be able to tell people the truth about Bible-thumping charlatans and new-age witch-doctors, without being fired or clapped in jail for blasphemy or the modern equivalent, hate speech.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
-Robert Lindner
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