Re: Private and Public

[doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)]

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"Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com> said:
>Since Mr. Merritt has insisted, I will take a foray into this issue. I
>would suggest, however, that this is not the forum for this discussion.

Ok...I'll desist after a brief comment: I actually don't disagree with
any of the major points you make when you put it that way -- although
some of the other things I call minor points you might call major points :-)

I think I do have some quibbles which would probably turn *into* serious
disagreement, but even I would say that raising those things would take us
far afield, so I'll leave it at that.

P.S. This is ad hominem...tsk, tsk:

>Mr. Merritt, this discussion is much like that of a Catholic peasant
>in 1500 trying to understand an atheist, with me in the role of the
>atheist.
	Doug