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To: mark silvers who wrote (25777)	6/11/1999 9:20:00 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

I think the ideal is wonderful, but totally impossible to obtain. Its just human nature. JLA

To: mark silvers who wrote (25777)	6/11/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

I think it's worth noting here that IMO Gandhi & MLK were fortunate to pursue nonviolent resistance against British and American governments not too long after they had been at war with Nazi Germany and were in revulsion from the horrors of Nazi racism. If not for Nazism; racism, antisemitism and other forms of bigotry would likely still be intellectually respectable today. Similar tactics employed in other places and times would have been much less successful. Does anyone even know the name of that Chinese guy who stood in front of the tank? The odds are he's not alive today and the movement of which he was a part was crushed. If not for modern technology, no one would have even known what he did. Perhaps we wouldn't even know the movement of which he was a part even existed. Having said that, I do agree pacifism is a lofty goal and would "work" if everyone (literally) chose that path. And those few who do choose that path have my respect. I'm pretty sure they're more morally noble than I. Bruce