In article <_ilM9.3382$37.377510@cletus.bright.net>, Rob Hammersmith <rhammersmith@hotmail.com> wrote: >At least a technical person can understand the appropriateness of a topic >within a forum. What the heck does the MCSE certification have to do with >what is currently happening in colleges? Keep this crossposting crap within >your other forums.
Also, a "technical" person, and even more so, a "scientific" person, can realize that what can be done is limited by what the laws of nature governing the real world permit. Also, at least some of us recognize that different people have much different ideas of what is a "good" result.
Many philosophers, moralists, and other "humanists" pontificate on what should be, disregarding what can be done, and even the full consequences of what they propose, as well as what others think should be. And then they claim that those who disagree with them are merely "technical".
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