Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

[Jim Choate]

[Warning: Use of 3rd person 'you']

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:

> Again, you make no distinction between freedom fighters and terrorists,
> which is very sad because there is a rather important difference. Being
> incapable of making the distinction, you are condemned to hate everybody
> who fights.

It's a false distinction. What it boils down to is two or more groups
taking up arms to control all groups. One can eulogize about ethics and
morality until the cows come home. Won't change the basic fact that any
such conclusions are not only arbitrary but transient. There is no
absolute right and wrong outside of human psychology. The American
colonist certainly qualified in the 'terrorist' department with their
burning of warehouses and physical assaults on British sympathisers. At
the same time they were sitting in various political offices and economic
posts.

To 'hate' is the issue, the scale is irrelevent. Stop the hate. Stop the
use of violence. Their failure does not justify yours.


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