Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:31:19 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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> In-Reply-To: <3BDCD8DE.C7D0B736@mindspring.com> References: <EB513E68D3F5D41191CA000255588101B43523@mailserv.xpert.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011028084141.04a5ef00@localhost> <20011029141820.L62434@monorchid.lemis.com> <3BDCD8DE.C7D0B736@mindspring.com>
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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
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