Oliver Stone (was:Pauper and Sweatshop Fallacies)

[Henry M]

So it sounds to me, Michael, like it doesn't get personal for you until
you, yourself, are personally attacked.

Yours truly,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  Henry M wrote:
> >> Okay.  Here's a dilemma that is unfortuneately not theoretical.
>  Soldiers of
> >> a mass-murdering tyrant, one who has killed women and children,
> surrounding
> >> themselves with women and children who function as "human shields."
> >>
> >>
>
> but let's say the situation is a different one, bin Laden, for
> instance - there's a lot of guys who stand ready to go in blazing
> gunfire and pretty good at avoiding non-combatants in general
>
> there's a lot of people inspired by that idea
>
> in all seriousness, i hypothetically wouldn't howl too many
> imprecations from the afterlife if i were, say, a valet or waiter who
> got accidentally blown up by the same suitcase bomb that killed Hitler
> for instance - in all likelihood i've gotta go myself sometime anyway
> (my dad passing in 2012 was a strong reminder of that probability)
>
> it's just that i'm not personally inspired by that idea, but much more
> by peaceful alternatives.
>
> you say, hey what peaceful alternative is gonna stop a heavily armed
> tyrant heck-bent on mayhem?
>
> by ceaseless labor and occasional inspiration and hearty support
> donated by or mulcted from millions over millenia, the military now
> has the capability of almost miraculous acts of destruction!
>
> even if i were so inclined, they don't need my nose on that
> grindstone...plenty of takers...
>
> obvious thought experiment, what if the same amount of time and energy
> were spent on something else instead?
>
> working on something else...yeah that's the ticket...somewhere,
> there's a cubic yard not being used for arms manufacture or target
> practice, i'm'a go sit there and think about peace...ways to practice
> it without making the warmakers even more upset...go to market with
> little harmless sweetnesses even the gnarliest warmaker might want,
> and for that brief second do something different besides act out the
> proverbial "idiot with a penknife" on the world's canvas
>
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