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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (223021)3/9/2005 9:31:12 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (2) of 1572777
 
Hmmm. This much of your post I understand:

Life is very complex. We, humans, have our limitations.

However, this part which you wrote in support of your point #1 WE HAVE TO BELIEVE WE ARE MORALLY SUPERIOR......

Of course, a lot of coercion helps. But, you can't do all the coercion all by yourself. You need help. You need to be nice to the people at the top of the coercion food chain. The people at the top of the coercion food chain are not all dummies. Some are of course fooled into thinking they are doing the greater good. Some only want the goodies. But it takes all kinds to keep the crap going. It isn't as easy as it looks.

don't make no sense to me at all.

I like clear simple sentences.

I don't see how you find it difficult to decide that Janjaweed militia that have raped village girls and burned village homes for years and years and years should be destroyed. I don't think the destroyer (whatever outside country takes up the cause) needs to claim some moral superiority. Common sense says that the Janjaweed militia is bad for the majority of the country (unless the villagers are committing some even more atrocious crime, which is probably not the case).

What that has to do with being nice to people at the top of some coercion chain, I do not know!

Q: Why do you have to be morally superior to determine that North Koreans would prefer eating to not eating?
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