re Re: MDDM Washington & Gershom

[Doug Millison]

jbor:
>No, the only person who has said "slavery is liberty" is you. It's a straw
>man argument.

Straw Man, re Gershom's slavery as liberty:
"Ah, but what Washington grants Gershom is absolute *liberty*. "
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 "You see," he continued confidentially, "I don't mind my legs and arms and
body being stuffed, because I cannot get hurt. If anyone treads on my toes
or sticks a pin into me, it doesn't matter, for I can't feel it. But I do
not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw
instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?"