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To: Lane3 who wrote (16640)	6/13/2001 10:40:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 82486

Fight the government under those circumstances and you're a patriot. Fight the government when it's mostly doing the will of the people and you're a terrorist. That goes back to our discussion of absolute morality and the idea of the majority always being right. Democracy is a very important principle for me but it doesn't trump everything in my opinion. If 50% of the people plus one support sending a hated minority to death camps and the government institutes such a policy then fighting the government either doesn't make you a terrorist or being a terrorist isn't always a bad thing depending on how you define the word terrorist. I pick an extreme example to make the point that fighting the majority is not always wrong. With a lesser abuse and a greater majority it gets a bit more complex. The question becomes, "where do you draw the line?" That can lead to a heated and possibly complex debate about each possible situation. I can not support the blanket statement "fight the government when it is mostly doing the will of the majority and you're a terrorist. Tim

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