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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:49:23AM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
> >>>>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, 
> >>>No matter what the beliefs happen to be?
> >>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.
> >
> >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.
>
> Not really. It's the impossible vs. the merely unlikely.

Hmmm... value judgement, not an absolute.  Which makes my point, I
think.

Many people tend to view things *other people* think are merely
unlikely as impossible.   Hence, slippery slope.

Cheers,
-- jra
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