Here's a link to a Slate article by William Saletan.
He makes some very good points about what our response should be. He
echoes Dan's observations:
>Superficially, it's empowering to analyze every situation
>in terms of the consequences of our own acts. Understanding
>how we can change the enemy's behavior by changing our own
>appears to put control in our hands. It also gratifies our
>egos by preserving our sense of free will while interpreting
>the enemy's conduct as causally determined. We're the
>subjects; they're the objects. But the empowerment and
>the ego gratification are illusory. By accepting as a
>mechanical fact the enemy's aggressive response to our
>offending behavior, we surrender control of the most
>important part of the sequence.
The rest of the article is available at:
http://slate.msn.com/framegame/entries/01-09-19_115869.asp
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Darryl
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