[MD] sq social - sq intellectual

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

>      Excellent!!!!!  I understand when somebody hits
> me, I hit back, but ideally, in the world of ideas,
> this usurping and debating would be best demonstrated
> in the world of ideas and the use of cleverness.  If
> we could have populations of Ghandi, Martin Luther
> King, Jr, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Christ, and the best
> demonstration of this population I've learned about is
> Tibetan monks as the Chinese rolled into their lives
> with guns, then ideas would appear first....  Hence
> the age old problem these people have tried to
> demonstrate, but how many people actually were able to
> behave according to the peace these people were trying
> to personify.  It sickens me too, that blunt force is
> used as a resort to finally get points across.

I wonder if you think it was wrong to use blunt force against the Nazis and
the Japs in World War II to "get points across."  Would you, like Gene, be 
unwilling to fight terrorists under any circumstances?

Thanks.

Platt


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