Thread: Rene Fonck? Ha!
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Old 15 September 2000, 08:50 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Oh, but what would we ever have to discuss if we all stopped 'flaming'?
On a more serious note, I don't think that revising history is necessarily bad. If you find a receipt in your files that you didn't account for, you 'revise' your balance. And science does it all the time. If we didn't revise "accepted fact" when more is known about the subject, we'd still be thinking that the sun was dragged across the sky by a guy in a chariot. It's when history is revised to make a certain group feel better about itself that I think it's a bad idea. And by 'certain group', I don't necessarily mean a small group within a society. Societies lie to themselves about themselves all the time.

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