Re: Re: PEN-L digest 814

2000-11-12 Thread Brad DeLong
>Brad DeLong wrote > >>Which has nothing to do with whether Nader's intervention in this >>election helped make the world a better place. If someone's bleeding >>arterially, you get a tourniquet: you don't cut their throat. > >Brad, > >Focus, Brad! It is now November 12 and there is a very differe

Re: Re: Re: Re: PEN-L digest 814

2000-11-12 Thread Justin Schwartz
>>Which has nothing to do with whether Nader's intervention in this election >>helped make the world a better place. If someone's bleeding arterially, >>you get a tourniquet: you don't cut their throat. > Sorta depends on your attitude towards them, no? If Gore was on fire, I wouldn't pee on hi

Re: Re: Re: PEN-L digest 814

2000-11-12 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:39 AM 11/12/2000 -0800, you wrote: >Which has nothing to do with whether Nader's intervention in this election >helped make the world a better place. If someone's bleeding arterially, >you get a tourniquet: you don't cut their throat. the DLC answer: you have to take responsibility for yo

Re: Re: PEN-L digest 814

2000-11-12 Thread Brad DeLong
> >So you agree that for you politics is a means of self-expression, >>rather than an attempt to make the world a better place? > > >>Brad DeLong > >Or that acceptance of the inevitibility of the 'iron cage' >guarantees it, whereas fighting might defeat it. > >Brad, I can understand your anger