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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (12541)	4/28/2001 1:59:42 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Obedience is a virtue only in children. Rethink that, please.

To: Lane3 who wrote (12541)	4/28/2001 3:16:44 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I have to disagree. What you and who you do it for very much matters. You get no respect in my book for being an excellent SS troop or operator of Hitler's gas chambers.

To: Lane3 who wrote (12541)	4/28/2001 3:35:38 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I find it very hard to separate respect from my approval of something. I can empathize with people who are doing things that are very "wrong" (wrong from my perspective, of course). Occasionally I can respect certain things- for example courageous acts on the part of German military officers that I have read about- but I cannot really respect their total lives, and their participation in something that seems so obviously wrong to me. Not that it is obviously wrong- only that to me it is, and that is coupled with whatever center in my brain evaluates the amount of respect due to someone or something. Now I have to go finish my film based on Marcel Proust's work- Remembrance of Things Past. It's very good, I highly recommend it.