[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[ian glendinning]

Hey Platt,

No problem meeting force with force, or evil with force, whatever, but
I would make a distinction between (ruthless) moral force and evil
(and I'm sure you woud too).

A Doctor destroying a virus is hardly "evil" is he ?

Ian

On 9/25/06, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:
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> > BTW Platt, even you cannot have really meant "fight evil with evil" can you ?
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> Ponder these words by Robert Pirsig. "Intellectuals must find biological behavior,
> no matter what its ethnic connection, and limit or destroy destructive biological
> patterns with complete moral ruthlessness, the way a doctor destroys germs, before
> those biological patterns destroy civilization itself." (Lila, 24)
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