On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:38:07PM -0700, Fred White wrote:
> On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 01:56  PM, Jay Maynard wrote:
> Those folks didn't just say to themselves "Let's go kill someone even
> if we have to kill ourselves in the process". They decided to choose us
> as a target because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that we have
> screwed them and that this is the only course left open to them to
> achieve revenge and/or to have us listen to them and their perceived
> plight.

Right. Why, therefore, should we give them what they want: a hearing?

> If you have any curiosity at all, you might like to know what drove
> them to such desperate measures.

Curiosity, yes. That does not, however, outweigh the overwhelming
disadvantage of giving them what they want.

> Or, of course, you can take the anti-Christian course of just blindly
> killing all of those bastards and never learning what drove them to become
> such bastards. How very enlightened. How very civilized.

Nice try. Snyder destroys that argument. I suggest you go read A Nation of
Cowards. The, if you think cowardice is still justified, then come back and
explain why.

Personally, I consider cowardice, be it individual or national, nothing less
than contemptible.

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