From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Sep 14 11:49: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9249937B40E; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b093.otenet.gr [195.167.121.221]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8EImqd15567; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:48:53 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8EHCpx12298; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:12:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:12:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: markemmanuel Cc: David Johnson , Advocacy FreeBSD , Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010914201250.A5293@hades.hell.gr> References: <3BA13B82.B77E8298@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from lists@markemmanuel.org on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:17:12PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: markemmanuel Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:17:12PM -0500 > Unfortunately, I just started getting hate mail for my statements. People > are calling me weak or something like that for not hating my brothers and > sisters that are not of the same citizenship, race, or culture. > > Peace, > --markemmanuel It is always like this, with hatred and good will. A thousand of those messages, is worth nothing compared to a handful of messages saying 'thank you, for being human'. Weakness is not to be civil towards fellow humans, regardless of their race, culture, religion, nationality, and beliefs. Weakness is to give in to the rage that one might feel, when seeing other people hurt, and become evil too in the hope that a greater evilness will stop the lesser one. But who needs a greater evilness? No one. We all need to sympathize and express our discomfort to the fact that people in the USA or elsewhere are being mistreated, hurt, abused, killed, every passing day, and help them feel better.. we do not need more 'angels of vengeance' on this planet. A few more 'angels of help' would be most fitting to the lot, though. Just my humble non-USA-citizen opinion, -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message