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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing
Message-ID: <484@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 20:39:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 20:39:55 1985
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In article <3377@drutx.UUCP> dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL) writes:
>> The letter you responded to was about a
>> man who was attacked on a foreign street for no reason. He wanted to
>> know why. Good for him! You don't seem to want to know why, you just
>> want to respond with more hate. That never solved ANYTHING. 
>
>First of all, it was not on a foreign street. (just a correction).
>
>My complaint is with people who performed the following scenario on an
>international scale:  (As far as I know, the following did not happen, but
>just suppose it did for a moment.)  After the attack, this man is hurting,
>scared, wondering, "Why me"?  Person X sees him and rather than trying to
>soothe his wounds, instead decides that he must be guilty of something to
>cause his attacker to beat on him.  Otherwise, why the attack?  So X reads
>off a list of greivances that X thinks someone *like* him did to someone
>*like* his attacker.  He protests.  X then tells him that even if he didn't
>cause those greivances, he was obliged to fix them.  That in any case, he
>is responsible, and therefore deserving of everything he got.
>
>Again I say, NONSENSE!

I have to agree with your point, but I don't see that connection to the
discussion. If the attacker came out and said,"I hit you because you are
ugly," then perhaps even the "Don Black" solution (a bullet in the head)
would be perfect. But if the attacker came out and said,"You killed my
children you slimy American bastard!" then the bullet-in-the-head
response would be nasty. I don't think there are many El Salvadorians
who dislike the Americans for better reasons than ugliness.

>"To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools". -- Jean de la Bruyere

To label who has sense and who is a fool is the privilege of the
arrogant.

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"I can't think of the most offensive thing I've said...
   ...what's your mother's name again?"
-Rev. Wang Zeep