On Mon, 29 May 2006, David VanHorn wrote:

>> He compared this scenario to one where the people are motivated by
>> abstract ideals or moral superiority or beliefs.  They have contempt for 
>> the
>> others because they are a different religion or because they are communists
>> and so on.  In this war they go another country, kill all the men, 
>> slaughter
>> all the women and children, burn the houses, villages, crops, everything
>> they can.  There is cruelty and torture.
>
> "god told me to"..  VERY VERY dangerous..

So you think 'the Fuehrer told me', 'comrade chairman told me', 'the 
guru told me' or something like that is less dangerous ? There never 
was, there isn't, and there never will be a shortage of evil emperors, 
comrades, and gurus (of various denominations). The problems begin when 
a sufficient minority (it is always a minority) start to follow the 
madman du jour and the *majority* do nothing about it. So this is not 
about a single person. This is about the sheep who did nothing against 
the rising evil.

Peter
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