Platt, Andrea, all
> Most
> humantarians talk a good game, but rarely practice what they preach.
Indeed a good reason to be anti-humanitarian....
> Pirsig railed against Rigel in Chapter 7 of LIla:
>
> "The ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free
> morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to
> themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too.They use the morals to
> make someone else look inferior and that way look better themselves."
>
So our Leftist Andrea is like the Conservative Rigel !
> Maybe I've misinterpreted your meaning, or taken it out of context. But
> when someone says "I value human life above all else, " or "Life is
> sacred," I usually find that they don't back up their words with
> corresponding action. That's what Pirsig meant by "cost-free morals."
[It's funny that in our Italian version that "cost-free" becomes "tax-free"
Considering what you have written few weeks ago about taxation! ]
Anyway Platt, as I wrote once, here in Italy even the atheists are catholic.
When we say that we put human life above everything we are probably meaning
something a guy called Jesus used to say many years ago. I'm not very religious,
but I've always read in the MOQ a metaphysical explanation that human life, that
is source of intellect, is above everything.
I'd add another good reason to reject Death Penalty. Killing Mc Veigh you don't
kill McVeigh's IDEAS: often those ideas get amplified. The best killer of a
wrong idea is its conceiver. So, once the conceiver has been reduced to
impotence, the best way to demonstrate his mistakes is to convince him he was
wrong.
Of course, my words are useless, as I'm pretty sure that the 80% of death
penalty supporters are just supporting a stupid vengeance...
bye,
Marco
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