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To: maceng2 who wrote (131105)5/3/2004 9:22:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
<It's my contention that all human beings are the same....There is right and wrong, and that can be simply stated. It's just when one human group is painted "wrong" and another painted "right" is where the problems start and finishes imho.>

Okay, I'm working on getting my viewpoint balanced. I think I have it now. The IRA faction is the same as the Protestants who are the same as the Real IRA who are the same as the Nazis who were the same as the American soldiers of WWII who were the same as the Jewish faction in Dachau who were the same as the European royal families who were the same as my family.

Okay, I'm getting it, we are all the same and nobody is better than anyone else. We should NOT say that the Nazi faction was bad. Stalin's faction was as altruistic as Greenpeace who are as wicked as the Rwandan Hutu genocidal faction.

Mqurice



To: maceng2 who wrote (131105)5/3/2004 1:41:05 PM
From: Noel de Leon  Respond to of 281500
 
"It's my contention that all human beings are the same." is a variant of "All men are created equal under the law."

As one can see these two statements are not compatible.



To: maceng2 who wrote (131105)5/3/2004 1:52:30 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
There is right and wrong, and that can be simply stated. It's just when one human group is painted "wrong" and another painted "right" is where the problems start and finishes imho.

Most people would agree with that...and as soon as you agree I'm right, our problem will be solved. <s>

jttmab



To: maceng2 who wrote (131105)5/3/2004 2:16:59 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
So if you were a prison guard you'd do the same thing?

And everybody you know would do the same thing?

You need new friends.