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Re: Thursday, March 20, 2003
SOAPBOX(*STEPUP) "Ultimately", Shelley...? I agree with what-all You said prior to this comment, btw. But not this part, because IF You look at "ultimately" in the absolute sense of the term, THEN nothing matters and You end up with the depression of nihilism... Thaz why best to avoid absolutes, in my experience. The choices each individual makes DO matter, in spite of the hit-count, jes like Ya said...!! Sure, some like You both, achieve "celebrity status" because thaz what people do. (http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/000805.html) Some have a wider range of influence, sure, yet each person's individual contribution matters equally, and hit don' matter none whether that contribution is done individually or collectively (other than the range of influence that might or might not be attained). Doc, I would say that Your hit-count on the peace blog reflects the fact that You gave a mixed message, and that is not so easily accessible as to be grasped in a single pass. I wuz somewhat surprised to see You call it a blog for peace, given the following: "If you have to crush a regime and its armies to end the far worse things they've been doing — as we did to Japan and Germany in World War II, and to the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan — your actions are entirely justifiable in the death-for-death and misery-for-misery moral economics of war. Inflict a lesser misery to end a greater one. End of story." So Your post required a level of reflective thought that most don't appear to wanna get into. Thought to comment yesterday but didn't, that it jes don't get much better 'n this: "Some day our civilization will mature to the degree that we'll see the evil in that pattern — and therefore in ourselves — and not just in our enemies." (However, I interpreted the above to also be pointing out the fact that our civilization is not there yet, thus the need for SOME wars. "Turn the other cheek" only works if a huge, overwhelming majority is practicing what they are preaching. Laws of "proper conduct during war" being a tough nut to crack and an oxymoron, to me anyhoo.) SOAPBOX(*STEPDOWN...;-)
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