Re: Genocide
- From: Fred J. McCall <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:07:00 GMT
Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:columbiaaccidentinvestigation wrote:
:>
:> Hey pat, how would you apply jim's anecdote of stopping and helping
:> people, to the genocide that occurred in Rwanda between the Hutu and
:> the Tutsi in the 90's?
:>
:
:I'd just stay out of it.
:I'm an isolationist.
:I also had a really hard time taking two tribes named "Hutus and
:"Tutsis" seriously, as they sounded like something that W.C. Fields
:would have made up: "Ah yes, it was in deepest Africa, during a tribal
:war between the Hutus and the Tutsis that I was bitten by the Giant
:Congo Vampire Bat...unfortunately the bite proved fatal, but I gave the
:bat a decent burial...".
Nah. WC was more of a pragmatist. He'd explain how they were killing
each other and then break into a rousing chorus of "Hutus, Tutsis,
goodbye..."
--
"Most people don't realize it, but ninety percent of morality is based
on comfort. Incinerate hundreds of people from thirty thousand feet
up and you'll sleep like a baby afterward. Kill one person with a
bayonet and your dreams will never be sweet again."
-- John Rain, "Rain Storm"
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