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To: Bilow who wrote (157963)	2/10/2005 4:20:22 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) of 281500

"My point here is that the ability to motivate humans to commit crimes (i.e. murder their family) and then commit suicide is hardly unique to the present situation." People giving up their life in defense of their beliefs by suicide rather than being slaughtered by an enemy or living in slavery after capture is the same as a terrorist strapping on a bomb and blowing up a disco? No the comparison works better with Ghandi and MLK taking the beatings they did for freedom and practicing civil disobedience. Masada was one way of doing that when death became a certainty. If the Jews of Masada snuck into the soldiers quarters and killed women and children by setting their living quarters ablaze while they slept, then you might have a comparison. Those South Vietnamese Buddhist monks are another example.

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