Re: IRAQ sort of: Re: Tim May calls for nuking of D.C.

From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 11:27:55 MST

  • Next message: Hubert Mania: "Re: IRAQ sort of: Re: Tim May calls for nuking of D.C."

    --- Brett Paatsch <paatschb@ocean.com.au> wrote:
    > Hubert Mania writes:
    > It certainly
    > seems crystal clear
    > to me that sometimes we (individual people and
    > groups of people)
    > simply do have to fight or die when we are
    > confronted by others
    > who have decided to exercise their choice to regard
    > us as prey.
    > Yet there are apparently a small but not
    > insignificant percentage
    > of the population that say that they would oppose
    > war in all
    > circumstances.

    I completely disagree. I assert only that certain
    questions phrased properly in a poll can cause people
    to appear as if the oppose war in all circumstances.

    Ask this, how many of these people would both say that
    they love/care deeply about their family and or
    friends, and would not kill someone if that was the
    only way to save all their lives. I posit you won't
    find a single athiest our there that supports this.
    (as atheists were what you were getting at). And save
    for those with clear mental disorders, I disbelieve
    you'll find any theists that would support this
    either.

    Now, as to how the information comes out as it is:
    It's very possible that there's people who'd say they
    won't support any war in refferring to one fought by
    the US. Could be that they've weighed the US as the
    greatest threat to their freedom, and would rather die
    fighting an enemy themselves if needed than have the
    US take care of it. It does not equate to willingness
    to be prey as they see themselves already as prey of
    the government. (I'm NOT supporting this view, just
    pointing out it's possibility).

    Another possibility could be their alliance lies with
    whatever 'enemy' it is the home country is going after
    at the time.

    I've never read in a history book of an invaded
    land...and I mean close enough proximity to see, where
    people were holding a peace protest and not scrambling
    for their lives. Am I wrong?

    Cory Przybyla

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