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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
filled with a flammable fuel and then lit on fire as a means of execution "heroism" or "fighting for freedom" - then there just is no reasoning with you.
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Also known as a 'Kentucky"
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
This leaves me with a couple of problems.
I'll drop it after this.
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Many thanks for your timely gravitas! Now back to Foster's, Lone Star, and Hamm's so Privateer can kick
my ass as promised inasmuch as this thread become
boering as well as unnecessarily contentious.
However Martin Luther King said it best and I cannot believe that it would have escaped Mandela's notice: "He who accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." Apartheid, along with much of the
murderous, enslaving, dehumanizing colonialism of three centuries on the 'dark continent'
WAS evil. And based on race and or tribalism, markedly so, as in Rawanda and the (Belgian)Congo, to this day. Mandela saw the evil, refused to
accept it and did not
cooperate with it. He studied evil's
war manual and used enough of it to defeat it till no longer needing the tools of it. All government is bad; the trick is to live where it is least worst...and in Africa today that is a tough call; Mandela made South Africa the least worst call at present...