Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:52:14 +0200 From: Yonatan Bokovza <Yonatan@xpert.com> To: 'Giorgos Keramidas' <charon@labs.gr>, 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: <EB513E68D3F5D41191CA000255588101B43533@mailserv.xpert.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:charon@labs.gr] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 07:31 > 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))) > > > 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. And Now To Something Completely Different: If your belief is that evolution is above all, even the human race, then nuclear holocaust is paradise for mutants. That's a Good Thing - evolution-wise. You see, everything's justifiable with the correct use of some sense, imagination and logic to tie it up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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