Thread: violence problem? ya think?
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Old 09-20-2006, 12:42 PM   #2
MaggieL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigV
Stereotypes and prejudices are not useful tools for understanding the truth. The map is not the terrain.
We have no direct experience of the terrain; we know it only through elaborate systems of maps.

Of course, *your* maps are better than everybody else's, being free of stereotypes and prejudice :-)
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