[Phys-L] Re: judge rejects i.d. in PA case

[John Mallinckrodt <ajm@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

> > ... but is fundamentally wrong ALWAYS.
>
> As Chomsky says, and writes, there is a tension here.  e.g. Should a
> Jew, when asked by a Gestapo agent if he is a Jew, not lie?

Yes.  That is just one of many similar situations which illustrate
why I specified "lying in support of a political agenda."

> Did not those fundamentalists consider the court like a gestapo one?

I don't know.  It is conceivable to me because if there's one thing I
AM certain of, it is that I have no idea what goes on in the brains
of religious fundamentalists.

--
John "Slo" Mallinckrodt

Professor of Physics, Cal Poly Pomona
<http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm>

and

Lead Guitarist, Out-Laws of Physics
<http://www.csupomona.edu/~hsleff/OoPs.html>
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