Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: scriptingNews outline for 8/18/2000

Author:	Will Fitzgerald
Posted:	8/18/2000; 8:06:10 AM
Topic:	scriptingNews outline for 8/18/2000
Msg #:	19820 (In response to 19818)
Prev/Next:	19819 / 19821

Well, yes, associate is the right word, but the important thing is to say what the association was that Kaplan was making.

I think the gist of his argument is: if anything construable as expression (such as code) is allowed to be completely covered under the 1st admendment, then political killing is too. (Reductio ad absurdum).

This is, of course, the problem with arguments based on reductio ad absurdum. People--wrongly, but powerfully--can rejoin 'equating X with Y is absurd.'

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