[lit-ideas] FW: Re: gashlycrumb tinies

Correction.  For better or for worse, depending on which side of the fence
you're sitting, terrorists apply the moral law within.  All others must
submit to law applied from without.  Lord of the Flies is what happens
without law.  It's happening now in Iraq.  The golden rule is a wonderful
theoretical construct.  In reality it has to be forced onto the species.

Andy Amago 


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> > [Original Message]
> > From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 7/30/2005 4:13:55 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: gashlycrumb tinies
> >
> > Andy Amago wrote:
> >
> > > Gorey is like, awesome.  If moral law is within, why is humanity so
> > > corrupt?  
> >
> > 'Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the 
> > longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens [above] 
> > and the moral law within.'
> >
> > ?Immanuel Kant, Conclusion of the Critique of Practical Reason
> >
>
>
> Sez him.  Maybe the potential for moral law within, a vastly unrealized
> potential indulged in by about 1% of the population.  Wishing don't make
it
> so.  I'd like evidence of this alleged moral law within.
>
>
> Andy Amago
>
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>
> > Robert Paul
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