From: David Harding (davidharding@optusnet.com.au)
Date: Wed Oct 12 2005 - 14:30:16 BST
On 10/12/05, David Harding <davidharding@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>Your both right.
>
>As Blue says, we should try and understand what causes the terrorists to
>go and blow things up, otherwise as Pirsig says of a system of thought,
>".. if a factory[terrorist] is torn down but the rationality[system of
>thought] which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will
>simply produce another factory[terrorist]" but let's not go and befriend
>them as some seem to want to do. And this is where Reds right, a person
>'blowing people up' is causing biological destruction on the biological
>quality level and thus should be killed as ruthlessly as a doctor kills
>a germ.
>
>The line between these two, between calling the terrorists our best
>friends, and calling them our sworn enemy seems to be taking its time to
>converge but it will get there and that's what helps make the MOQ so
>great. You can look at two opposing sides of things and see how they
>work together to form the underlying quality of the whole thing rather
>than the crude dichtomatic 'I'm right, your wrong' kind of attitude.
>When terrorists behave like terrorists, kill them. When they don't,
>their problem's ours. Simple.
>-David.
>
>
>
ian glendinning wrote:
>Not sure who you were referring to in "you're both right" David,
>But I'm with you - my recurring point is - life is not all binary arguments.
>
>Partisan politicians like Platt slap the label "indecisive wishy-washy
>liberal" on people who think like that, unfortunately.
>
>Ian
>
Right,
But I think it's also important to remember that with the MOQ we can
create simple solutions to problems. This very same simplicity which
attracts many American conservatives to begin with.
-David.
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