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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (13772)7/22/2012 9:15:16 PM
From: SmoothSail  Respond to of 23934
 
But nothing concentrates the faculties like the certainty that one is to be hanged in a fortnight.

They all think it can't happen here. They don't see what happens to women in Iran and other Muslim countries. Thirty years ago, the people in Iran couldn't imagine their country would be run by "holy" men who slaughter the citizens for wearing Western style clothes or listen to Western music.



To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (13772)7/23/2012 12:07:50 AM
From: ManyMoose  Respond to of 23934
 
I would rephrase that to read.

Low info folks use emotion to elect and inflict sorry specimens on the rest of us.

Low info folks use moral intuition to elect and inflict sorry specimens on the rest of us.