"Pierre Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote: > For example, why do libertarians look more or > less crazy in public discourse, and are often absent from public debates, > while PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) runs half a doze > websites (including cowsarecool.com) and wage campaigns with slogans like > "Help chickens in China"? There is heart-warming crazy, and coldly analytical crazy. People figure that if someone's going to be crazy, at least let them be kind. I will say that PETA is pushing the envelope with some of their antics, which border on violent -- ask Dan Glickman, the current Secretary of Agriculture, whose had all manner of foodstuffs chucked at him. ------------------------------------------------------------ Sourav K. Mandal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/ "In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle" ------------------------------------------------------------ Sourav K. Mandal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/ "In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle" ------------------------------------------------------------ Sourav K. Mandal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/ "In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle"
