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

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (37582)	11/19/2001 11:23:36 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It seems that there are kinds of cowardice. Physical cowardice, and social cowardice. Someone who takes four handguns and breaks into a police station and starts firing wildly knowing that they will almost certainly be killed to some officer, but wanting to take as many as they can with them because they're angry at the police, may be physically brave, but I think socially cowardly since they take the easier way of mindless violence rather than the harder way of trying to solve their issues constructively. This, it seems to me, is the case with the plane hijackeers They were physically brave, but socially, I think, cowards, since all they wanted to do was destroy, not try to solve a problem or issue. They were like the little kid in the sandbox who doesn't have the will or patience to build his or her own things, but just goes around stomping other peoples, knowing that teachers and/or parents, not to mention other kids, will punish them. Or the kid who ties firecrackers to the tail of a cat, which is a fairly physically brave act in some ways considering that cats have claws and teeth, but socially cowardly.