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To: marktwain

I had a professor in university that persuaded me to give up pacifism and move on from the Mennonite girlfriend. He did it in three sentences. He said:

“I would like to be a pacifist because I like the sense of moral superiority it gives me. But, my sense of justice sees too many people that absolutely deserve to have the shit beat out of them. Pacifism demands setting aside justice.”

http://faimao.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-i-am-not-pacifist-part-2-edited.html


3 posted on 11/14/2016 1:48:18 AM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
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To: Fai Mao
< “I would like to be a pacifist because I like the sense of moral superiority it gives me. But, my sense of justice sees too many people that absolutely deserve to have the shit beat out of them. Pacifism demands setting aside justice.”

Oh that's some gold there...lol

4 posted on 11/14/2016 1:51:37 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Fai Mao; marktwain; All
Most accurate assessment I have found to date:

I am driving my Mazda CX-5, listening to Bob Dylan really loud, singing along, with my eyes closed and not paying attention. My speed creeps up from the Guam limit of 35 mph to 65 mph. I don't see a school zone (because my eyes are closed) and I run over seven little kids killing six of them and crippling the seventh for life. I then fail to stop and continue on home dragging the body of one of the dead brats under my car for three or four miles. Can I now avoid prosecution for speeding, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, manslaughter and possibly murder by claiming there was no intent to break the law? If so I can thank Mr Comey the FBI director because this the excuse he just gave Hillary Clinton and set it as a precedent in US law.

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Either the rule of law has just been perverted though political corruption or there are two sets of laws, one for most people and another for high level politicians. Neither of these is a good thing.

Can you get all of the previous into a sound bite?

16 posted on 11/20/2016 1:04:12 AM PST by packrat01 (Christian, TULIP, Contra-Arminian Oath Keeper, Missouri Militia member, vet, FReeper)
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