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Selatius

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Tue Dec-13-05 04:37 PM
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21. My principles say it isn't justified, but...

my emotions would say it is justified. I say this when I read reports coming home from Iraq. A soldier remarked after viewing a father carrying the dead body of his son who was missing part of his head that if somebody had killed people he loved, he would not stop until the killers were dead. He understood at least one reason why an Iraqi would choose to fight something so much more powerful than himself.

Of course, it was people like Jesus, Gandhi, and others who advocated a path that wasn't full of rage and revenge, and I try to follow those people, but it's easy to stray away from that path. I'm only human.

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