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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: coug who wrote (34773)10/22/2001 1:01:46 AM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I would like to think so, but as late I have only the hope of that being the case. Compassion is always a good thing, even though I'm pragmatic enough to know that in some cases compassion is simply not enough, or even an option. When people discuss crushing the testicles of people with glee in order to elicit information, I have to confess that I get a shudder, not so much due to the horror, but because I know it works. Democracy is not possible in places where that is used.

I've told people that I personally have observed that a compassionless society is more stable than one built on compassion. There are more cruel societies than ones that haven't been cruel. One need only look at an ant colony to see cold, efficient execution of a social plan where compassion plays no part. 200 million years continuous existence.

What are we by comparison, but a fluke, an anomaly, an untested experiment? A mere 30 years since Kent state where National Guardsmen shot unarmed protestors and we dumped gallons of napalm on Vietnamese children. A paltry 50 years has passed since blacks were free of having dogs sicced upon them when complaining against an unfair social structure. Only 70 years since Pinkertons were sicced upon people who wanted the right to a decent living wage.
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