[at-l] Knowing that it's there.. and atml

[RoksnRoots at aol.com (RoksnRoots@aol.com)]

In a message dated 8/7/2005 11:27:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
rafeb@speakeasy.net writes:
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See my response to Jim Owen.  If you think
cell phones are more destructive to the AT
than autos, highways and smog, you're not
being rational.

In all your rants about "cell phone induced
access points" you don't mention a much larger
danger:  autos, highways, and smog.  No,
you're more concerned about the ideological
purity of your fellow hikers.  You focus your
wrath on a shiny trinket that's nearly irrelevant
in the larger picture.
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             Self deceit is the worst crime of the intellect Rafe.

         Nobody said those things weren't worse than cell phones. A smart 
person would realize all those things affect the Trail's wildness quality at 
different rates. Therefore one doesn't necessarily cancel another. To suggest so 
is the textbook definition of a straw man argument.

            I think we've won this debate. But that doesn't mean the Trail 
Community won't bury it and enforce a hazy, non-descript, status quo attitude 
that doesn't necessarily show any concern for the Trail's purpose...






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