On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:36:14 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> Hi All! > I don't understand what suicide attacks have to do with guns or the lack > thereof. > Anyways ... I see that there is a HUGE cultural difference on how guns are > viewed. > But it is clear that owning guns is no deterrent to crime, as well as the > capital punishment is (provenly) also no deterrent. > Anyways ... I will *very* much enjoy to see this movie "Bowling for Columbine" In the US and Switzerland there is a very high positive correlation between low violent crime rates and high gun ownership rates. Recently in Australia the firearms-related crime rate soared immediately after Australia passed some very restrictive anti-gun legislation. I agree that it is indeed proven that capital punishment is no deterrent for murder. I am most amazed that the truth should be as it is and so contrary to what the majority of other Americans believe, but I cannot argue with the facts. In every country there are a lot of people who do not want to look at the truth because the truth is so contrary to what they *want* to believe. In a democratic society, if the majority believes in a lie or an erroneous concept, the falsehood will become incorporated and dogmatized into the law and it will be adhered to and become the official policy of other institutions in government. The principle drawback to democracy is that it is based on the utterly false assumption that the majority is always right. This assumption leads to government by the tyranny of the masses. The best form of government is government by a highly enlightened and beneficent dictator who radiates divine bliss. This kind of government cannot be established anywhere on this planet because there are no highly enlightened and beneficent people here who radiate divine bliss and who want to become dictators. You can't influence those kinds of people to be anybody other than who they want to be and to do anything other than what they want to do. Nobody can get their way with them because they would much prefer to submit humbly to death by crucifixion and then later ascend back into heaven rather than to take any advice from anyone to do anything other than what they want to do or to be anyone other than who they want to be. There is no golden crown that is good enough for them because those kinds of crowns would weigh too heavy on their heads. They will always most graciously accept a crown of thorns, but only if the coronation ceremony is conducted by the very lowliest of government officials and attended by no honors whatsover. Also they don't want any royal raiments of the finest fabrics. Rather than to think about what they themselves should wear, they would just prefer to consider the lillies and how they grow, and remark upon how not even Solomon in all his glory was ever arrayed as fine as these. For the reasons explained above, it is very hard to find someone who would be a truly good dictator. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
