> [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 4/6/2006 1:38:08 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is torture wrong by definition? > > >>There is no way that one can say let's act like > barbarians and civilization > will follow. > > As Monty Python argued, "What have the Romans ever > done for us?" > James Joyce once likened Rome to "a man who lives by exhibiting to travelers his grandmother's corpse." In addition to which, Rome was a brutal, brutal society. Is that what they've done for us? > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html