From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 14 18:18:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from urdvg136.cms.usa.net (urdvg136.cms.usa.net [204.68.25.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AC3537B417 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12668 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 01:25:22 -0000 Received: from cpdvg201.cms.usa.net (165.212.10.5) by outbound.postoffice.net with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 01:25:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 11328 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Nov 2001 01:23:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20011115012345.11327.qmail@cpdvg201.cms.usa.net> Received: from 165.212.10.5 by mx06 for [165.212.15.106] via web-mailer(34FM.0700.21.01) on Thu Nov 15 01:23:45 GMT 2001 Date: 14 Nov 2001 18:23:45 MST From: J S To: Michel Talon , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Re: Course of law] X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.21.01) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Michel Talon wrote: > > Minor correction: "military", not "civilians". If you shoot at > > civilians, you're a terrorist. > = > What you are saying was true in 18 th century perhaps, but is > completely off-topic now. Take the example of World War II. The > allies have completely erased whole German cities like Dresden > making thousands of civilian casualties, not to mention Hiroshima > and Nagasaki. In fact the modern war is conducted mainly against > civilians, in the hope it will diminish the military resources. > This implies that it is not possible to make a clear cut distinction > between war activities and terrorism, except in rethorics. > As you surely know, Vietnam war has been won againsts Frenchs and then > Americans using "terrorist" methods, followed by full scale war methods= =2E > In Algeria, the war has been gained against the Frenchs purely by the u= se > of "terrorist" methods. Or to give an other example, when the Frenchs > were occupied by the Germans during World War II, the activities of > French resistants were depicted by the Germans as "terrorism". = > So please, as a computer scientist, try to dismiss arguments who > have a completely void real content. In reality all forms of war are > evil, and necessarily lead to immoral behavior. > = > -- = > Michel Talon violence begets violence - it just depends on who is writing the story as to what justification they create for it. = fight war, not wars joshua Joshua Smith, CCNA Data Center Technian USA.NET "Walk with me through the Universe, And along the way see how all of us are Connected. Feast the eyes of your Soul, On the Love that abounds. In all places at once, seemingly endless, Like your own existence." - Stephen Hawking - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message