RE: virus: Re: virus-digest V2 #298

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:59:58 -0000

> From:
> konsler@ascat.harvard.edu[SMTP:konsler@ascat.harvard.edu]
>
> I have agreed that <critical analysis> is
> a useful tool that we should encourage people to use. You seem to be
> elevating it to a higher position than tool. It is that additional
> worship
> of reason, above all else, that makes me uncomfortable.
>
Me too. But I know where David is coming from. He
values <critical analysis>/<rationality> so highly
because he sees it as our only reliable weapon
against extremely serious infections of memetic
virii.

Me, I feel the same way about Buddhism. Because
it can kill 99.99% of all known memetic virii. Dead.

Robin