Whoops. Category error alert! You are quite. Values ARE actions. A meta-action. And it is probably not VALUES, we hate, but values-talk, and we probably hate it because it so rarely correspond to action. In truth, a person's values are what they are helpless to not do. Nick
From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:48 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings Sorry Nick: hating values is an action. Verb, not a noun. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: Lee, Your response is self-contradictory. Hating values IS a value. And besides, I know you are full of the damned things. (values). N -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:44 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings > Dear Lee and Marcus, > > I am afraid I fell for a Liberal meme. It may, of course, be true, > but at least so far as I can determine from a quick scan of the web, > there is no consensus on the causality that I implied. > > So, at the moment, I guess it just comes down to values. I hate the > damned things. Oh, you're not alone--I hate values too! ...I also am perfectly willing to ban as many guns as possible. My father, who won medals for the US Marine Corps on its sharpshooting team in the 1920s and 1930s and used those skills lethally as a horse Marine during the Second Nicaraguan Campaign, got rid of all his guns when I was born. I am sure that if he hadn't, at some point one of us would have shot the other dead. I just wanted to keep you honest, flow-of-causation-wise. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile
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