<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 9, 2005, at 12:55 PM, c c wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Samantha, I dont know how to communicate with you as we both speak the same language but I cannot express my difference of opinion with you at all. It is as if I came from another planet. You write as if I have taken a definite position on the war. <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I wrote in response to the suggestion that a neutron bomb was some kind of solution to terrorism. You are not the only one that has made such a suggestion. I believe I must speak up at such times. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Such is not the case, I don't know what is going on, and every time I ask a dissident or conspiracy theorist for info on the secret aspects of the allied war the inevitable reply is forthcoming, "do your own research". It is so predictable, thereafter the personal attacks start. But though I have severe doubts concerning the allies, I have no respect for al qaeda or bin Laden whatsoever. I see no intrinsic difference between the 'Werewolves' terrorists of 1945-6 Germany and al qaeda, bin Laden is just a religious thug. BTW if you don't like the designation 'terrorist' then substitute 'freedom fighter', the name Islamo-militants call themselves or are called means nothing. For starters you would have t! o fill me in on grave allied secrets, which you can't do. We could start with a morals discussion of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings of 60 years ago, but we would go nowhere, being intellectuals. Morality aside, <EM>soldiers do; intellectuals perseverate</EM>.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Please reread what I wrote. It goes far deeper than this so-called war and a personal interchange. What I wrote is not about persons or personalities. The above does not touch the fundamental thing I was attempting to bring out. </DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>>If I were to express my abhorrence in a similar way then I would wish <BR>>that you and those who agree with you would be at ground zero if such <BR>>a thing was done. But since I understand what you apparently miss I <BR>>would not wish that on you. What you are missing is that all "those. <BR>>people" are all potential immortals. Exactly why do they deserve to <BR>>miss eternity for some real or imagined stupidities of their <BR>>(relatively) *very* early childhood? We who have not learned yet to <BR>>truly understand indefinitely long life or understand its requisites <BR>>are willing to kill all too easily.<BR><BR>- samantha<BR>><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A><BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat<BR></DIV><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1"> <A href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTE0bG4ybmRjBF9TAzk1OTQ5NjM2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFnBHNsawNhdWN0aW9ucw--/SIG=10vb8ief1/**http%3a//auctions.yahoo.com/">Sell on Yahoo! Auctions </A> - No fees. Bid on great items.<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>