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To: KLP who wrote (190993)	12/30/2006 1:08:43 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793897

Karen, I don't see why pacifists should spend their time trying to help people. That implies their lives are still the property of somebody else to dispose of. Which is the problem we are constantly dealing with in the whole violent aspect of humanity = some people who are tougher, or want to be, think that that entitles them to have slaves, whether they win by democratic vote or outright Saddam process. Pacifists owe nobody anything. There is no reason at all that they should spend their time "helping people" any more than you should spend your time as a servant of other people [other than in the obvious sense that we all can only live by providing services to other people in exchange for payment]. Pacifists have a perfectly valid ideology. They will have trouble with mosquitoes and violent humans who wish to take their property, but they nevertheless have a valid approach to life. They might even be the future of human evolution. Except that I think self-determined "evolution" will take over via genetic engineering with humans being superseded by sentient cyberspace in a symbiotic process of a completely new life form different from the old DNA-based biological history of humans and all other living things. Also, I don't see anything wrong with running away. That has an excellent biological history in evolutionary success. Gazelles are really good at it. I don't see them as unethical. It's important to know what steps to take when a powerful enemy approaches. "Good, long 'uns". [Old joke] Mqurice