Posted on 11/09/2004 6:04:50 PM PST by saquin
"Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice!"
A lesson that should have taken hold for our politicians on 9-11.
Time to cull the herd of the fanatic-gene.
You do realize that we'd lose half of FR, don't you?
"Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice!"
Correct.. -- In defending life & liberty, it's difficult to become to extreme..
--However :
"The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation."
'Thus, we are driven to the conclusion that our trouble is an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.'
-Arthur Koestler-
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