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Post #9,751 by Fearless Freep 9/19/01 6:12:00 PM Reply	Laughable The world now has a chance to take a stance on inhumanity. Those that decide that humanity is not important to them will suffer the consequences. Evil will be rooted out and destroyed, if necessary. The cancer has got to go or it will destroy the host. 10,000 years of human social behavior will be overturned in two weeks? If the Holocaust didn't scar people enough to change, this certainly won't affect us either Jay O'Connor "Going places unmapped to do things unplanned to people unsuspecting"
Post #9,754 by brettj 9/19/01 6:30:56 PM Reply	I take it you have no hope? You see no possibility for good to come out of this even though countries that hated each other a week ago are now talking? Without hope there is only despair. I'll keep my faith in humanity and keep hoping. Maybe that's foolish and laughable but there you have it.
Post #9,755 by Fearless Freep 9/19/01 6:44:17 PM Reply	shrug Maybe I have no hope I have no hope that human nature will chnage because of this. 10,000+ years of history don't provide much evidence of human wisdom ever increasing. You see no possibility for good to come out of this even though countries that hated each other a week ago are now talking? Who were our allies in WWII? Was not the Soviet Union in that group? Nations can be notoriously pragmatic and finicky about allegiences Jay O'Connor "Going places unmapped to do things unplanned to people unsuspecting"
Post #9,758 by brettj 9/19/01 7:25:54 PM Reply	We either grow up some day ... ... or our technology and hate will eliminate life as we know it. I'm hoping we have matured enough not to cause our own destruction. Are you familiar with the Drake Equation? Now is the time to show the world how mature the people of the world have become. And the U.S. has the chance to take the lead if we can show a bit of restraint and compassion.
Post #9,756 by Ashton 9/19/01 6:59:17 PM Reply	I'll agree on probable results, this time too - but Holocaust is a Red Herring. Hitler's scapegoating of the Jews was barely.. 'religious' - almost arbitrarily, they were the designated recipients of the frustration, poverty and hatred engendered by the Draconian terms of the WW-I surrender. Pure economics as in: "Look at these-smart-college-guys, owning all that property - selling out the Deutsche Volk - a Zionist plot! to take over the Vaterland" (misplaced my copy of MK, so this is just paraphrase). So back to the point, which is hardly mooted by 'The Holocaust': this time the action is alleged to derive from the heart of Religious Dogma\ufffd. Again - 'alleged'. And especially in 'Christian' Murica, there is woeful ignorance about most other religions everywhere - and 'Christians' are as divided as the balance of civilization about, Which GodsWord Is True(r). So yes - it IS (this time too) about economics, about ~ the entire Muslim world numbering among the poorest (save for a few OPEC places - where the wealth is divided even more absurdly than our mere 95/5, yet poor people live better there, too). But: the ignorance about Islam (and all others) brings focus on the religious basis, and not the underlying rationale. I maintain there is an opportunity here. But just a slim one. In the end, think we are much more apt to act precipitately than, patiently, cleverly: wisely. Maybe a litmus: will there be any lasting damage to the ongoing agenda of the Tee Vee preachers - following the excrescences of two of them - next (??) Has anyone learned anything new, about hate encapsulated in religious doggerel, wherever found ?? (and maybe about: extreme poverty ==> extreme response, in the face of manic wealth, flaunted) A.
Post #9,843 by marlowe 9/20/01 11:54:19 AM Reply	Human antisocial behavior... thrives in an atomosphere of terminal nonjudgementalism. Time for the West to regrow its backbone. And find that moral compass. Inthane's not completely wrong on details, after all. No one is absolutely sinless. It's just that our enemies are far far worse than us. Say, whatever happened to pre-modernism? [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html]
Post #9,852 by inthane-chan 9/20/01 12:47:25 PM Reply	Never made a judgement about our enemies... ...except that they are bad enough that they need excising from this world, before their cancer grows. We have a sickness as well, but I'm seriously hoping it's not terminal. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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