[TAG] [peter.maxwell at anu.edu.au: Re: [LG 101] mailbag #2 - Stephen Bint]

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:28:41PM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
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>>Jason Creighton wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:04:58 +0100, 
>>>"Jimmy O'Regan" <jimregan at o2.ie> wrote:
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>>>>I would go further; it's my opinion that there is no more honourable way 
>>>>to die than to die in the pursuit of your beliefs, 
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>>>No matter what the beliefs happen to be?
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>>Hmm. That's true. I'm sure I wouldn't admire anyone who died in the 
>>pursuit of their belief that they can fly like Superman.
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>Well, interestingly enough, this is one of those slippery slopes... I
>gather that his situation was not entirely dissimilar to that... from
>our point of view.
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Not really. It's the impossible vs. the merely unlikely.