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- From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
- Subject: Re: The Difference Injure..
- Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:17:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.761935@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov19.173804.18478@onetouch.COM> jpalmer@onetouch.COM (John Palmer)
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- John writes
- > Or maybe because they saw something out of the ordinary, thought it was
- >funny, and laughed. You are projecting the results of the action (Taldin
- >feeling bad) onto the CAUSE of the action. . .and that's not good logic. Do
- >you realize that this type of reasoning makes every gun that's been used in a
- >killing 'evil'? That the gun is firing a bullet is irrelevant to the fact that
- >the bullet will, under the standard laws of physics, hit someone.
-
- People have minds and can know what they are doing. If you laugh at
- someone, you should know or think that it can hurt, especially if you
- are mocking them in some way for being different and thereby
- excluding them form a social grouping (you and others who laugh or
- who you encourage to do so). The gun cannot be evil because it cannot
- think, reason or feel. People can and should do all of these things
- (IMHO). They may not *intend* to humiliate you but I believe we have
- to accept a certain amount of responsibility for our actions, if not
- always the results - within reason - there are of course many
- exceptions - *grin*.If the people upsetting Taldin didn't think about
- whether it would hurt him, they aren't considerate, if they did, they
- they don't sound very nice (of course, tehy may have their own
- problems). The gun doesn't have a choice, so it's a bad example. The
- results should have been predictble, even if they weren't intended.
- Does your point sound a little bit like the end justifies the means
- to anyone else?
-
- mary looks down in sudden alarm - "now that's what I call a soap-box"
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- mary
- apprentice potter
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- | Ommmmmm, said the lift |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
- | Organisation: Me? You're joking, right? |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp |
- |I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-) |
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