You're right, I didn't answer your question directly BECAUSE I do include you
among the ranks of people who think. I assume that is a major reason that you
are a Libertarian. I still believe that subtlety has a role in communication,
but only among people who have a thorough command of a common language. Let me
suggest that you review one scene in the old movie "Apocalypse Now" in which
Marlon Brando says how many of a particular type of man he needs to win the
war. Granted, that was an unnecessary war, which I know first-hand, but that is
the best explanation of the evil of war that I have seen. I really don't care
to face that evil again, even though I did volunteer to go to Iran in 1979. A
certain peanut farmer had a better idea.
Susan Hogarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Susan Hogarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Ken Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about the draft:
> >
> > ... Although it
> > is undeniably evil, it is sometimes necessary. ...
>
> How can evil ever be necessary? What do you mean when you use the word 'evil'?
On 3/7/07, K B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Susan:
>
> Thanks for actually thinking, unlike most Americans!
I don't share your opinion that most people don't think.
> I will quote my uncle, who went down with the aircraft carrier Lipscomb Bay
> at the age of 17. He wrote, shortly before his death, "God must give us a
> special dispensation for the terrible things that we must do."
This is a bizarre sort of theology which believes that you get some
special pass to conduct evil in the name of some greater good. But
that sort of bastardized Christianity is always popping up, I guess.
Witness the Inquisition. Witness the Crusades. Witness the witch
trials. And, yes, the same awful 'religion of necessary evil' exist in
other religions.
> Those who have been there, and a few other thinking people, will understand
> what those words mean and imply.
Well, I must not qualify. Is this some sort of understanding which can
be conveyed by words, or do you have to understand why evil might be
necessary through some flash of intuition?
Also: you didn't answer my question: what do you mean by 'evil'?
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