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Martin William Smith <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:24:47 +0200
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Dan Carkner writes:
> Someone else wrote:
> > Maybe you should have stated "it doesn't make sense to accuse
> > someone of not caring about it just because they don't talk
> > about it on a mailing list".
> >
> > Of course, one can argue what is and isn't sensibly, but, to most,
> > it is obvious.
>
> yes. thank you.

Yes, I didn't do that.  I explained what I was talking about several
times.  Dan reduced it to the above because that's what he
understood.  I apologize for not making myself clear.

On the subject of what is sensible being obvious to most.  I agree.
What was sensible was obvious to NATO.  That's why they bombed
Yugoslavia.  So apparently sensibility is not so obvious.  Unless, of
course, you mean that what is sensible is obvious to "us" but not to
"them", ie we are good and they are bad.  Chomsky's model applies to
all of us.

martin

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