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To: bart13 who wrote (93364)	8/12/2012 7:00:37 PM
From: Robin Plunder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219512

"My real point is that until such time as many more people can truly & reliably identify and be aware of and directly confront "evil" in the area of psychopathic and similar types," so....how would these be identified? rp

To: bart13 who wrote (93364)	8/12/2012 7:03:55 PM
From: Joseph Silent	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219512

Addressing these issues is a simple matter, but also difficult, because the entities who must address them are complex. I keep both Tzus handy for whenever I forget. Think of of derivatives, markets, bankers, politicians, lawyers, clergy .......... and these Tzuisms from more than 2000 yeas ago. Have people changed with western enlightenment, technology, science, literature, and education? The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, the more trouble in the land. The more ingenious and clever men are, the more strange things happen. The more rules and regulations, the more thieves and robbers. --- Lao Tzu The invention of weights and measures makes robbery easier. signing contracts, setting seals, makes robbery more sure. Teaching love and duty provides a fitting language with which to prove that robbery is really for the general good. A poor man must swing, for stealing a belt buckle, But if a rich man steals a whole state He is acclaimed as statesman of the year. Hence, if you want to hear the very best speeches on love, duty, justice, etc., listen to statesmen... and when the statesmen and lawyers and preachers of duty disappear There are no more robberies either And the world is at peace. Moral: the more you pile up ethical principles and duties and obligations To bring everyone in line, The more you gather loot For a thief like Khang. By ethical argument and moral principle The greatest crimes are eventually shown To have been necessary, and, in fact, A signal benefit to mankind. ---Chuang Tzu, from ‘The Way of Chuang Tzu’ translated by Thomas Merton

To: bart13 who wrote (93364)	8/12/2012 7:42:39 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219512

>>>"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."<<< A misquotation of something Santayana said more or less as an aside, which is misused to rebuke people for not knowing enough about history: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, Scribner's, 1905, p. 284 Santayana's original comment was just an observation that undeveloped human beings, like animals and other organisms, have no culture or history (as far as we know--who knows what whales may pass on). So all they can do is to repeat what their genes program them to do. Human beings also do this to a lesser or greater degree. But to the extent that an organism's culture enables it remember the past, it is at least possible to learn something from it and to escape from inevitable repetition. Here's the original context: Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.