Reply #70: Of course it is necessary to draw lines,... [View All]

,...making some "walk the plank" by confronting them with the "values" they fail to advance. Yes, I agree. (I'll treat the "campfire songs" comment as merely a boyish poke, for now *LOL*).

My point of disagreement concerns approach. Instead of offering comradery to those individuals who DO work to advance common values, we destroy the good along with the bad.

How can IMPACTFUL "coalitions" build without advancing the pertinent individuals within existent systems? Hmmmm.

With respect to "peoples",...I disagree with your philosophy that "a people" is only that body of human beings which falls into a specific "category" without choice. In my humble opinion, whether by fate or birth or choice or circumstance, "a people" can be defined by loyalty or adherence to any common association/structure.

I could be wrong. But, if I am,...then, an argument could be made that Americans or Iraqis or Sudanese or Japanese or Bohemians or Jews or Protestants or gypsies are not really "a people".