[lit-ideas] Re: Hitler/Stalin
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:18:49 -0500
DMcE:
my partner has just asked me to write (having been provoked by news of
America's response to Obama's health care plans) that Americans come
across as a bunch of "thick nutters".<<
Look, we didn't make those people sick. Why did they get sick if they
couldn't afford to? Obama wants to suck the blood out of the Producer Class
and transfuse it into the User Class and the Abuser Class. We Producer's
have to do everything. Well, I'm sick and tired of paying for their
irresponsibility and I'm no longer willing to pay to keep those low-lifes
alive. If they choose to be poor and uneducated and unemployed and homeless
and drug addicted, then that's their choice, let them live with it -- as
long as they can . All you socialists with your cradle to grave excuses for
failure drag down the human race. LET THEM DIE -- it's Darwin's way.
Yours in Christ,
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donal McEvoy" <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:29 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Hitler/Stalin
--- On Thu, 13/8/09, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not all children grow up to be monsters if they are
tortured, that's true, probably most don't, at least
not on a grand scale, but it's because we don't know
how the stars will line up that we need to prevent all
abuse.
Preventing _all_ abuse is all very well as a long-term goal, but in the
meantime we should perhaps be alert to stop abused children of the Hitler,
Stalin type ever getting into positions of power, where they can organise
the murder and torture of others. Minimising violence may be said to be
still the central problem of human civilisation.
It would seem to me that our US/UK culture is developing in two
contradictory ways (as cultures often do): there is (overall) increased
awareness of a child-centred approach to child-rearing compared to fifty or
sixty years ago and comparatively less social tolerance of many punishments
and other 'treatments' that used to be meted out; at the same time, many
children are raised in a culture where development of their conscience is
put at risk by the values of materialism, consumerism, cynicism and an
excessive sense of entitlement - and their vulnerability is increased when
their parents and peers subscribe to these values.
Btw, in case this seems reasonable, my partner has just asked me to write
(having been provoked by news of America's response to Obama's health care
plans) that Americans come across as a bunch of "thick nutters". And I have
just said, "Funny you should say that, because most of them don't believe in
Darwinian evolution either."
Donal
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