--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > But the really malign ones do perfectly ghastly damage > > and cause horrific suffering before they fail, so the > > fact that they're ultimately self-limited by their egos > > doesn't solve the problem. You just wanna make them stop > > NOW. > > Ahem. *YOU* might want to make them stop now. > I do not have such fantasies, or dream of having > those kinds of siddhis. > > I see believing that you (even theoretically) > have the right to decide who is good and who is > evil and who is "malign" and who is the potential > ideal citizen of society as essentially no different > than Dick Cheney or Joseph Stalin or Mao Tse-Tung > or any tyrant in history doing so. > > It's a slippery slope, even theoretically. IMO, > the moment anyone thinks "Something should be done > about these malign people I don't like," they have > BECOME one of those malign people themselves. > > Just my opinion. So shoot me. With a death ray. :-)
All Barry's various pontifications on this topic today should be seen in light of the following from him back in December: "If the worst fears of AGW believers come true, I hope that those delegates from the U.S., from Japan, from China, and from other industrialized nations that kept real emission reduction from being even *discussed* at this summit are the first to be dragged out of their homes into the streets and staked out on a beach somewhere, there to await the 'rising tide.'" <snicker>
