In a message dated 10/14/01 1:53:01 PM, [email protected] writes: << are you saying, with this humor, that punching back is the *only* response possible? ...or the only response that is not optional? ...or the only response that is to be expected? have you never ducked, dodged, blocked or stepped away? must we always collapse into punching? >>
Hi, Michael, No, of course not!! I've ducked, dodged, weaved, ran, stepped back, etc., in my 64 years of life but the "other" wasn't out to kill me, either. That was my qualifier--my life wasn't in real danger. Nor was my freedom or that of my family or children or wife, especially that. I wasn't in danger of being sent to a concentration camp or a gulag or a killing fields or...........I was relatively safe. When it gets unsafe in a meaningful way, and the "other" is bent on my, my family's or culture's destruction because they want me dead or imprisoned or in their control or ????-----, for whatever imagined reason, then, it's time to punch back. Power over others and their future is a deep sickness which many people have. We don't have to accede to that in order to have some mythical "peace". I, for one, will punch back. Paul * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
