Re: [Phys-l] A physicist and his background

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

"... and I appreciated being forced to think about the fact that 
tolerance is not always a virtue."

Laurent Hodges



Careful there  you don't want to be compared w/ Goldwater, do you?


[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! 
And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is 
no virtue!]


bc not serious.

p.s. I think in some cases courts have ruled against the Watch tower 
people forcing blood transfusions on minors.


Laurent Hodges wrote:

> > Do children have rights? Do parents have the right to deny their children 
> >    
> needed medical care? Do they have the right to prevent their children from 
> learning knowledge, especially that taught by noted scholars? This is basically 
> about rights. 
cut

> Minnesota.  He told me his story, getting progressively redder in the face and 
> angrier thinking back on it.  He had grown up in one of the isolated Amish or 
> Amish-like religious communities that prohibited contact with the external 
> world.  His own curiosity and intellectual abilities had led him to make a 
> traumatic break with the community and escape it, finding some way to get an 
> education and eventually even a Ph.D. in physics.  He was so angry thinking 
> back on his parents and the community leaders, and kept telling me this was 
> serious child abuse, and a completely unconscionable crime.  
>
> I was afraid ever to discuss his background with him again, and never did, but 
> I remember his reaction so very clearly.  I'm sure what he said was a correct 
> description, and I appreciated being forced to think about the fact that 
> tolerance is not always a virtue.
>
> Laurent Hodges
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