Karmic debt

[Thomas Eckhardt]

(Hope nobody minds that I changed the subject line.)

Barbara wrote:

> Yes, yes, Thomas, we're all paying--the Afghans, the Jews, the Americans. I'm trying really hard to think outside the ethnic and national box here, but you keep dragging me back in, asking me again and again to "specify."

No, I was trying to pull you out of that ethnic and national box. Successfully, it seems. As for specifying: My mind cannot really process information like "It is time to STOP the killing!" without specifics of time and place.

> >What you seem to say is that if somebody sets out to murder a few million people it is >more ethical to let this happen instead of attempting to stop the ongoing genocide by >any means necessary. Is that what you're saying? If so, I beg to differ.
>
> I never said any such thing, and I don't know how do you arrived at such a conclusion.

I had the impression that what you said amounted to "There is no situation in which it is ethical to kill people." Which was Ghandi's radical pacifist attitude towards the holocaust, as mentioned by George Orwell. I wasn't sure, so I asked.

As for the rest of your post: I did neither address you as a representative of the US of A nor did I grab you by the throat, figuratively speaking, like you do when you write:

> And I guess that means, Thomas, we don't just have to sit around and wait around for the bad shit to happen, we can start working against it now. Yes, I find that idea very exciting.  Forget blame, just take it from here--make amends instead of revenge.  Imagine how the world could flourish now if America had to work off her Karmic debt!  And Germany, huh, Thomas?  Yes, yes, that really would be something!

In fact, I resent it.

Thomas