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


To: one_less who wrote (14878)5/29/2001 6:47:12 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
Self- sacrifice is also an option among the secular, although the context is different. We all die, and it is preferable to choose a noble death, one that upholds principle and/or insists upon one's dignity, than slip away without honor. The calculus would be something like this: is the gravity of the offense so great that a person of conscience would take a lifetime expiating? In which case, death might be preferable......