re the inimitable rushdie in article bu edu jaeger buphy bu edu gregg jaeger writes in article qg g kl fido asd sgi com livesey solntze wpd sgi com jon livesey writes you are amazed that i find it difficult to grasp it when people justify death threats against rushdie with the claim he was born muslim this is empty rhetoric i am amazed at your inability to understand what i am saying not that you find it difficult to grasp it when people justify death threats i find it amazing that your ability to consider abstract questions in isolation you seem to believe in the falsity of principles by the consequence of their abuse you must hate physics you re closer than you might imagine i certainly despised living under the soviet regime when it purported to organize society according to what they fondly imagined to be the objective conclusions of marxist dialectic but i don t hate physics so long as some clown doesn t start trying to control my life on the assumption that we are all interchangeable atoms rather than individual human beings jon
