Re: A Reagan quote

From: jjustwwondering (jwasilewsky_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: 15 Jun 2004 03:25:37 -0700

"Mike Combs" <mikecombs@nospam.com_chg_nospam_2_ti> wrote in message news:<cakq6b$5sk$1@home.itg.ti.com>...
>
> We're all aware that in any disagreement, both sides lable the opposition
> "evil". But I'd argue there is a simple, objective, non-culturally-derived
> way of distinguishing evil from non-evil.
>
> If a philosophy is anti-life or anti-human, it's evil. Otherwise, not.

A nice idea; however, if "life" stands for "human life"
(and not, say, Streptococcus life), then it's redundant.

But that's OK: I'd even add "or anti-reason" - another redundancy.

> The Nazis were obviously anti-life, at least where the wrong racial
> varieties were concerned.
>
> The Communists were anti-human, at least in the sense that they sought to
> subjugate human wants and needs to the needs of the state.

Also, anti-life in the very same sense as the Nazis: just substitute
"class" for "race".

> The Islamo-Facists are most certainly anti-life, even to the extent of
> glorifying and exalting its opposite: death.

Also, in the same sense as the Commies and the Nazis: just substitute
"creed" for "class" or "race"...

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