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

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (44604)	2/24/2002 1:25:02 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

1865 to 1961 If you honestly believe that this period represented a "golden age of morality and Christian ethics", you need to reread your history. Please remove the rose-colored glasses. I wouldn't say that this was a period dominated by monstrous evil, but we were certainly no "better" as a nation then than we are now. In some ways we were perhaps better, at some points in that time. In some ways we were certainly worse. It looks like a golden age only to those who would rather look only at the golden bits. The same could be said of any other period, anywhere, that people try to represent as a "golden age".

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (44604)	2/24/2002 9:58:48 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

On the subject of morality.... Today's Boston Globe draws an interesting parallel between the upcoming trial of the Dartmouth professors teen killers, and the famous Loeb-Leopold case of the 1920s: boston.com Loeb and Leopold, the original thrill killers, rationalized their crime on the basis of the teachings of Nietzche, that there are some exceptional people to whom the ordinary standards of morality do not apply. Alfred Hitchcock's movie, "Rope," was loosely based on this case.