On 17 August 2011 18:03, Amon Zero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amon@doctrinezero.com">amon@doctrinezero.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>The Abolitionist meme (i.e. Zero (involuntary) suffering) is like a totem or ideal to gather under, but not one that should preclude short-term efforts on any number of fronts.<br></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br><br>In other words, I would say that there is a beautiful irony in the fact that an utterly impractical ideal or symbol can sometimes be one of the most powerful, and therefore useful, things in the world... <br>
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