From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 29 0:52:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from void.xpert.com (xpert.com [199.203.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9683B37B407; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailserv.xpert.com ([199.203.132.135]) by void.xpert.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15y88z-0008F6-00; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:51:41 +0200 Received: by mailserv.xpert.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <472JNMK9>; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:52:14 +0200 Message-ID: From: Yonatan Bokovza To: 'Giorgos Keramidas' , Terry Lambert Cc: Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Course of law (was: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping vi ctims of terror))) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:52:14 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 > -----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