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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (90628)	12/4/2004 4:16:17 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The sixties was a very, very difficult time in America. A lot of very bright and highly educated young people, having tried nonviolent protest to try to change our society, eventually crossed the line, and it was a very big mess. Like most violent revolutionaries, they probably believe they had no alternative at that point. The war in Vietnam was extremely violent--we were killing innocent villagers, in some cases to destroy the village strategically (destroying the village to save it). But once in awhile the troops got carried away because violence begets more violence, and we just massacred people. We were destroying Vietnam as a nation, which to some people makes violence more acceptable. Not to everyone though--the revolutionaries who became violent didn't share that view. They were at war as well. Good intent, bad choices. Certainly not the same pathology that inhabits the souls of psychotic killers, though.