>Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:51:14 -0500
>From: "Sodom" <sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
>Subject: RE: virus: Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
>
>I am not a People person either, but I would say that ideas are more
>important than people. "Freedom" as an idea is worth dying and killing for.
>I dont care how many people die so that "freedom" exists for the others -
>including nuclear oblivion.
Yikes, dude! You sound a fundamentalist...a real born again "Son of Liberty". "Give US liberty or give US ALL death?" Umm...do I get a vote, Dr. Strangelove...or do we have a special definition of democracy?
> So is "Individuality" and several others.
I agree. But you should recognize those as articles of faith so that when the time for reflection comes you can question them:
"Let us bathe our hands in...blodd up to the elbows, and besmear
our swords. Then we will walk forth, even to the marketplace,
and waving our red weapons over our heads let us all cry
'peace, freedom, and liberty!'" -Shakespeare (Julius Ceasar)
>People, though essential to ideas, are disposable on the grand scale easily
I agree. But, again, things we hold higher than people...things we are
willing to kill for...these are articles of faith. The fact is that, when
faced with the moment of truth, the majority of people who are not
properly conditioned cannot kill another person, even in war. We
have a natural resistance to violence.
>demonstratable when we look at our history and remember perhaps .0001% of
>those that have lived. Many of us Americans would see many articles in the
>Bill of Rights as Ideas more valuable than peoples lives. Freedom of
>expresion, religion, carry fire arms, privacy - all worth killing or dying
>for in my opinion.
Reed
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