[thechat] A balance of opinion.

[Erik Mattheis]

START PROGRAM "Determine How Informed Hugh Is About Iran"

EXAMINE STATEMENT: "Iran not democratic"
RETURN FALSE
SUPPLY HUGH GOOGLE SEARCH: 
<http://www.google.com/search?q=iranian+elections>

EXAMINE STATEMENT: "Iran citizens have almost no rights"
RETURN FALSE
SUPPLY HUGH EXCERPT FROM IRANIAN CONSTITUTION:  "Article 3  [State 
Goals] 14) securing the multifarious rights of all citizens, both women 
and men, and providing legal protection for all, as well as the 
equality of all before the law;"

EXAMINE STATEMENT: "Iran women have < 0 rights"
RETURN FALSE
SUPPLY HUGH EXCERPT FROM IRANIAN CONSTITUTION: "Through the creation of 
Islamic social infrastructures, all the elements of humanity that 
served the multifaceted foreign exploitation shall regain their true 
identity and human rights.  As a part of this process, it is only 
natural that women should benefit from a particularly large 
augmentation of their rights, because of the greater oppression that 
they suffered under the old regime ... Not only does woman recover 
thereby her momentous and precious function of motherhood, rearing of 
ideologically committed human beings, she also assumes a pioneering 
social role and becomes the fellow struggler of man in all vital areas 
of life."

ANALYZE HUGHS INFORMEDNESS ABOUT IRAN 0 / 3 statements correct RETURN 0%

END PROGRAM

So, I'd like to hear the results of your thought experiment now that 
you have some better facts.


On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 11:17 PM, Hugh Blair wrote:

> <thought_experiment_started>
>         ../does not compute
>      ./Iran not democratic
>      ./Iran citizens have almost no rights
>      ./Iran women have < 0 rights
>    /reboot
> </thought_experiment_ended>
>
> system fault
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-/erik/

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<http://shockingelk.com/>

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my 
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the 
spinal cord would fully suffice.

- Albert Einstein
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