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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1772)	9/29/2001 2:08:30 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 281500

Maurice, there is no freedom if no one is willing to defend freedom. In my entire adult life, I've never struck another individual. Not even spanked a child. But I have no difficulty envisioning situations where I would be perfectly willing to "go through" a pacifist of dubious stripe in order to defend a greater good, if that pacifist insists on placing himself in the way of that defense. There's nothing more inherently sacred about pacifists than anyone else. As I said earlier, many people are professed pacifists as much out of ego as anything else. I'm convinced of that. It's an easy, risk-free kind of sainthood for many of them, particularly in this country.