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

To: epicure who wrote (30280)	9/29/2001 7:03:59 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 82486

That's where I'm at.

To: epicure who wrote (30280)	9/29/2001 8:19:40 PM
From: St_Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I like you. You really got me going. I question your worries about inconvenience. As I said elsewhere, isn't this praising with faint damns? Ever read any of Douglas Adam's stuff (God rest his soul)? I'm sure that the children of those lost in this latest little holocaust would describe their losses as more than a pesky inconvenience. I'm sure that any child of parents incinerated by the Nazis would describe their parents' fate as more than a mere inconvenience. Am I overstating my case here? It just seems to me that "inconvenience" is a word associated with power outages and late trains. the english language provides us with better ways to describe events like those alluded to above. What's wrong with deciding that people sometimes behave badly? It's dangerous. We have to be careful. But isn't it worth the risk of making a mistake? Also, I don't get the analogy between simple viral disease agents and complex human beings that, unlike viruses, are allegedly responsible for their actions. Smallpox is deadly but not immoral. But then okay. You seem to be willing to admit that sometimes peoples' behavior is inconvenient, maybe even severely so. I would argue that any child who lost a father under whatever circumstances that may have occured two weeks ago, found that event to be severely inconvenient and, further, that any child under those circumstances would feel roughly the same. That's what I would call an absolute -- something that anybody, under those circumstances, would find disruptive. Maybe the only difference here is the words we choose. But I like my words better.