In article <211020072154330046%none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, X. Rayburn <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> In article <ffguuj$c8v$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, David Wolff
> <dwolffxx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > War. Genocide. Can't be done by individuals.
> > >
> > > It takes a village (to commit atrocities).
> >
> > Yeah, things were so much better when we lived in caves.
> >
> > After all, when there's only 3 people per cave, there were never
> > murders.
>
> A feeble response. People in groups are more harmful than the _same_
> people as individuals. The average Joe on the street would never dream
> of traveling around the world to kill people he'd never even met, but
> tell him he's part of a group threatened by another group, and bang! he
> can't wait to join the army and go kill some foreigners.
>
> Racism in the old South was another great example. A white person who
> might have been kind to his servants and reasonably polite to random
> blacks would become a different person when he got liquored up and put
> on his Klan robes.
>
> Why can't you admit that people in groups are more evil than the same
> people functioning as individuals? Is it because you're a communist and
> your political ideology is based on group-think? (Since you've been
> involved with the Esperanto movement I assume you're a commie or some
> other form of left-wing extremist crackpot. No offense intended.)
Offense taken.
Given that I don't feel like spending a couple hours correcting all the
mistakes above, and that this has nothing to do with a.l.a., permit me
to simply respond "<plonk>".
-- David
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