[511] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Racism and what-not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandy L Evans)
Thu May 3 16:53:21 2001
Message-Id: <200105032048.QAA27849@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>
To: Michael E Rolish <merolish@MIT.EDU>
cc: Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU, liane@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 May 2001 16:37:08 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 16:48:58 -0400
From: Brandy L Evans <liane@MIT.EDU>
I fail to see how identifying yourself as Catholic is any more
superficial - or really any different - than identifying yourself as
an Objectivist. Both define how you think about the world. Just
because your parents raised you to be Catholic doesn't make it any
less a part of you either - you had to learn about Objectivism from
somewhere, right? What if you had learned about it from your parents?
>How the world treated [you] and how you were raised are not essentials
>- your own thoughts and choices are.
But don't the first two affect how the second two come out?? You are
who you are because of genetics and environment - you weren't raised
in an intellectual and cultural vacuum, and you think the way you do
because of how other people thought and acted and how you processed
these thoughts and actions. You can't claim that your thoughts and
choices would be the same had your environmental circumstances been
different.
-Brandy
