[extropy-chat] MLK, JFK, RFK, Lennon...

[Kevin Freels]

What do the bullets have to do with it? They aren't just "innocent", but
they were inanimate objects at rest that remained at rest until a person
applied an outside force and made them deadly. I too am confused about your
point.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olga Bourlin" <fauxever at sprynet.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] MLK, JFK, RFK, Lennon...


> From: "Ned Late" <nedlt at yahoo.com>
>
> > They all tried very seriously to alter the status quo,
> > and look at what happened to them.
>
> I'm not certain I get what you are saying here.  Surely there have been
many
> people who have altered the status quo, and who did not get killed.
>
> Observe:  A contemporary of MLK - civil rights pioneer James Forman, who
> died just a week ago - was one of the people who "changed the course of
> mighty rivers."  Cancer finally killed him at age 76, not a bullet.  And
> there have been many like Forman, before and since - fearless,
> uncompromising, compassionate people with integrity and vision.
>
> And since you mentioned JFK - what did he ever do to alter the status quo?
> (In most important ways he was the personification of the status quo,
> testing which way the wind blew before commiting his thoughts towards the
> "right path.").
>
> Olga
>
>
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