-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Jim was heard to say: > Miss Reason has, over the last few months since I first encountered > a Youtube of hers, impressed me as having very strange ideas. > > The phrase, "the ends don't justify the means" is a proverb about > doing evil things in the name of a good cause.
Ms. Reason has forgotten that each action in of itself is both means and end. An intermediate step. I pull various mussles in order to close my hand. I close my hand in order to pick up a pen. I pick up a pen in order to write. I write in order to convey a particular idea. Etc. > Tools are neither good nor evil. A gun, for example, is just a > tool. It can be used for good or used for evil. Because a tool is inanimate. It does not function by its own volition, it does not _act_. An army is the tool of its commander, yet each soldier remains a volitional person. So he who gave the order is just as guilty of an act as the soldier who "pulled the trigger". I agree that as soon as I saw "MEANS are neither good nor evil" I knew she had gone off the deep end. Myself, I read a few specks and then just deleted it. Simply a means to the noble end of clearing out my in-box. Curt- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSEUtMy9Y35yItIgBAQKKuwf6Api6hn7NFOu5X0jL4+UMf1m18tWoB+kg mpp79LilE+aVMN1++PBUft4phMxDIM4odgkofCcFMSG/UQPmVThH5r7jn+/i2uX5 /3MR3mZF4UBsXrWQoRUOtHkrJiQUEom7+qm1d6QGlaw9bDPDBryyauHiKx4jd31Q UEAL1HnWP87kc5W5Wk4BP2AG/r6QWR1PZh/elutc/83amETwEB4Vb87Ml7i4fWjR iwJ9CWkUwMb5s32bCl/EC2GDNmGNLUlW1e6XQy6GHWa9HEB/ZWI81L6eMCt9ypKD Om6MOG99aJNrqDc92sqdvxP1Q6wEN03nIhGUuGv47zGE02LQBkB8wg== =Oe3F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
