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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (38652)	3/16/1999 5:50:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

Also from "Orthodoxy": The last thing that can be said of a lunatic is that his actions are causeless. If any human acts may loosely be called causeless, they are the minor acts of a healthy man; whistling as he walks; slashing the grass with a stick; kicking his heels or rubbing his hands. It is the happy man who does the useless things; the sick man is not strong enough to be idle. It is exactly such careless and causeless actions that the madman could never understand; for the madman (like the determinist) generally sees too much cause in everything. The madman would read a conspiratorial significance into those empty activities. He would think that the lopping of the grass was an attack on private property. He would think that the kicking of the heels was a signal to an accomplice. If the madman could for an instant become careless, he would become sane. Every one who has had the misfortune to talk with people in the heart or on the edge of mental disorder, knows that their most sinister quality is a horrible clarity of detail; a connecting of one thing with another in a map more elaborate than a maze. If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

To: Neocon who wrote (38652)	3/18/1999 12:54:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Neocon, to the person of average intelligence, what you say is not only easily grasped, but is innate "common sense". But then sadly, people with an agenda to excuse criminal acts are blind to common sense. They have an agenda, and will not be put off by people pointing out the fallacy of their so-called "beliefs". Btw, I read an article in the WSJ (print edition) recently that says that quotation marks are being used more and more, often times perhaps "inappropriately". What are they talking about? Perhaps people are simply becoming more enlightened about the many "wonderful" uses of quotation marks.