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1) As regards the person referred to in the following explanation; would you consider him "wealthy"? Why or why not?
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3) What do you think, if something occurs once, does it necessarily follow that it is possible for that same thing to occur again?
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| Jump to Survey | > I am mostly a pacifist and believe everyone else should be one as
> well.
I am not a pacifist, but that doesn't automatically make me a warmonger either. I do believe that there are things and ideas worth fighting, dying or even killing for. However, that does not keep me from admiring principled pacifists either. Ghandi comes to mind.
But let us consider Ghandi's struggle for Indian independence for a bit. He managed to win independence for India against the military might of the British Empire. However, the British military was operating under a code of conduct based on a fairly uncorrupted Briton sense of honour, decency and fair play. Suppose Ghandi's opponent was not the British Empire, but Hitler's Third Reich. Do you honestly think the result would have the same? I don't. Once Hitler managed to break and pervert the Germanic sense of honour and duty into a State-serving set of values based on pragmatism and blind obedience, he transmogrified a once-proud military organization into a mere gang of sociopathic thugs. The resulting mass murder of unarmed peoples who posed no threat whatsoever to anyone at all is a matter of historical record.
No one can reasonably argue against the fact that Ghandi demonstrated conclusively that it is possible
for soft human flesh to halt the advance of steel tanks. The problem with adopting this tactic universally though is that it's efficacy is almost entirely dependent on who is operating the tanks, and has almost nothing to do with who is laying down in front of them. Should we forget this lesson, the documented atrocities of the Third Reich cease to have any value as an historical record and assume the status of mere necrophiliac pornography. | | Jump to Survey | 
I kinda figured that was the case. So sorry to disappoint you! Just your luck the social misfit got to it first, eh? | | Jump to Survey | Thanks, I will try to keep that in mind. I actually passed up an opportunity to buy the book because I liked the movie so well. |
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