To: c.hinton who wrote (79492 ) 11/21/2001 6:10:35 AM From: d:oug Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116756 "The value of anything is based on consensus."[chinton] chinton, For sure you mean well with your posts wishing peace and good will towards all people on planet Earth, but let me place a Rarebird type hat on top of my head, and from this i must be frank and say that your use of words like value in the above, and in reference to those caught between two militaries fighting each other where the innocents suffer hurt and death, well your depth is shallow to an extreme thin'ness that if your words were those used to educate, then the world would suffer as evil would have an undeserved advantage as you cause weakness in thoughts generated by those using you as an example to think for understanding so that action can be taken for survival. Its really a double negative here, as not only is your type of analysis almost non existence and producing near zero worth, its output is actual damaging since those of evil can twist and turn your good will into what will become you helping them accomplish their bad deeds. But you represent the majority of people while i have been labeled a nut case, jerk and so so many other not nice words such that when Dougak says that you are incorrect based on the fact that your reasoning is unlike mine, well that aGood :o) Please let me tone this down and redo this post in a manner that is user friendly by saying that your statement has the ring of truth to it and would be accepted as correct if a vote was taken. But then sometimes things are not what they seem, and sometimes what seems for the good is really bad. (or) depth in the writings of Ayn Rand to discover the logic as to why the innocents living under an evil rule are equal in threat to you as are the military soldiers of the evil rule. (or) sending food aid to starving people living under an evil rule is counter productive and in itself an evil act towards the next generation of people born by those starving innocents you name. dougak