From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 28 21:55:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949B937B403; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:55:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a228.otenet.gr [212.205.215.228]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9T5tkv00788; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:55:46 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9T5VKK21101; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:31:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:31:19 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Terry Lambert Cc: Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Course of law (was: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping vi ctims of terror))) Message-ID: <20011029073119.A21071@hades.hell.gr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011028084141.04a5ef00@localhost> <20011029141820.L62434@monorchid.lemis.com> <3BDCD8DE.C7D0B736@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BDCD8DE.C7D0B736@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:19:42PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > > I think I should point out that I'm targetting the Israelis here > > because they should know better, and that answering violence with more > > violence doesn't work. In fact, I'm more sympathetic to the Israaeli > > cause than I am to the Palestinian cause. I know that the > > Palestinians started it. But this isn't the way to get people to stop > > if they're prepared to die for their cause. > > Actually, if you eliminate _all_ of your enemies in the > process, answering violence with more violence works. Well, in a similar tangle of thoughts, if a nuclear holocaust does guarantee that all the `enemies' will die, it `works' too. But that does not make it justifiable, by any means. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message