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	The following paragraphs are a reply to Grosch in honor of
his office.  However, if you are tired of the whole matter, I won't
be offended.

	I doubt Herb Grosch can find a recent literate use of "moralistic"
that isn't pejorative.  Three of the four examples in the OED are
pejorative, e.g.  "Such an action is moralistic rather than moral, for it
has not been prompted by the sentiment of goodness".

	Like Weizenbaum, Grosch deigns neither to justify nor delineate
his judgments.  He substitutes bluster for moral argument, and he won't
tell us whether houseflies are to be protected just from connection to
computers or also from general biological experimentation, medical
experimentation, feeding to pet lizards, and from fly swatters.

	I hope someone will run for President of ACM on a platform of
literacy, morality (not moralism), and intellectual coherency.