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From: Peter Merel <>
Subject: Ordinary Men
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:40:41 +1000

Beth Bailey writes,

> However, there are also evil people in the world, who, although  
> they don't know you, they hate you passionately, with every fiber  
> of their miserable being. They are oppressed, and it is all your  
> fault! As a result, they look forward to ensuring that you die a  
> painful, horrible, excruciating, though widely televised death.

We've done worse to them than they to us by orders of magnitude. If  
there are evil people, it's us. But I believe there are just people,  
no us and them. Each person is capable of good or evil as  
circumstances dictate. In citing FDR's 4 Freedoms I propose we work  
to change our circumstances, and thereby the cause of terror.

> As Scooby Doo and Shaggy would say,"Yikes!"

As Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor said, "We shall show them they are  
weak, that they are only children, that childlike happiness is the  
sweetest."

Peter Merel.

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