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<DIV><FONT size=2>The title for this message first occurred to me about 10 days
ago, when the list last became ...agitated. Events in the wider world are
reflected here whether we like it or not.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>It seems that the more people feel they are right, the more
vehement they can become in their views. This of course evokes the equal and
opposite, and matters escalate.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>It is no solution to eliminate people with unwelcome views and
an offensive manner of expressing them - whether from a list such as this, or
from the face of the earth, as may soon be the case in Afghanistan.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Problems are reconciled on a higher (logical) level and in
different terms from the ones in which they manifest. The peacemakers of history
have known this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>That is why answering aggression with aggression does not
resolve the problem. Shirley MacLaine's solution for fierce dogs on her
Camino is quite different from the one expressed on this list
recently:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> </FONT><FONT size=3>If a mad dog snaps at me, I do not
pray for him. I whack him with a big,<BR>heavy stick. And keep
whacking.<BR>Let's get back to Camino matters and let the military forces of
the<BR>civilised world do their job.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>...and what is the job of pilgrims?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Charles Clasen</FONT></DIV>
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