Zell, Chris wrote:
> When 9-11 happened, what depressed and horrified me the most was not the > actual losses of life and property, although they were bad enough. > > What horrified me most was hearing that the Muslim men involved might > have attended college, gone to strip clubs and consumed alcohol. In > short, they > had every available benefit or pleasure western society offered - and > still dedicated themselves to mass murder and suicide. If we cannot > count on these > sort of activities civilizing a person - or at least allowing them to > release whatever intense emotion dominates them - I'm not sure what hope > for humanity remains. Disaffected young men and women appear in every society. > What I fear most is the inevitable expansion of technology getting into > Muslim hands - I hesitate to say "radical Muslims" because it still is > not clear to me > that such radicalism is really radical among large numbers of Muslims. > At any rate, while cold fusion may not give us fissionable materials at > present, > We can't be sure that a simple procedure won't allow that kind of threat > in the future, by whatever physics uncovers. > We, of the west, have a right to survive as individuals and as a > culture. I continue to hope that negotiation and good sense prevail > everywhere, especially > In the Middle East. As a gesture of good faith one could exchange a couple of ICBMs for more business opportunities. ;-) Harry
