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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Steve Long wrote:
> >
> > How can there be a middle ground when you're facing off against
fantasy?
> >
> We're both dealing with fantasy, here. Neither Mars colonies or space
> habitats exist at this time. We're all blue-skying. Neither your
> fantasy nor anyone else's is better.
>
> > Can there be a middle ground, and should we reach accomodation, with
> > the folks of NAMBLA, the guys who want to have sex with kids. Hey,
> > they too are living in a fantasy world and can't offer any arguments
> > in support of their platform, but their fantasy world is compelling to
> > them.
>
> Pardon me? You believe that the division between proponents of space
> versus surface living is a MORAL battle equivalent to the division
> between adults who want to have sex with children and people who see
> that as incredibly wrong? That those who disagree with you are the
> MORAL equivalent of Nazis? Are you trying to LABEL me by association?
>
> You, I think, have proved all of my concerns about your feelings in
> this matter.
>
> I'm here to speak, to question, to offer my own insights and
> understandings, and to learn. I'm not here to be condescendingly
> preached to, nor are the others of a more open mind, who are not
> nearly as divinely certain of their truth as you seem to be. We
> joined a discussion group -- not a church.
>
> You are no longer "discussing" -- you are prosyletizing, railing at
> the sinners and threatening them to repent or else. And just as I
> send itinerant preachers selling exhortations away from my door, I
> will no longer respond to what this thread has become. Your certainty
> will never overcome my uncertainty, nor will I attempt to open your
> mind. I have no interest in spreading doubt among the born-again.
> There are other things going on in my life, and preaching against
> preaching takes too much time and energy.
>
> I apologize to the rest of the group for starting this.
>
> Steve