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To: Dead Corpse
in sum, here's the error in over-application of a benign philosophy:

For any thinking, reasoning being... there are always options other than initiating force, fraud, or theft.

ah... no, not really. usually, yes. but not always.

5,426 posted on 01/23/2006 7:39:10 PM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: Dead Corpse

moreover, that over-applied/over-extended benign philosophy does not take into account the necessity of dealing with the incompetent, the passive-aggressive, and the indolent when they become obstructions and impediments in no-man's-land.

Eventually, even the calmest and most rational of thinking beings grows weary of dodging and weaving and halting and saying "excuse me, could you please step aside" and takes the more direct tack of forcing the obstacle out of his path by threat or application of some degree of violence.

and rightly so.

"initiating force" is not always unjust.


5,427 posted on 01/23/2006 7:47:15 PM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: King Prout

Yes. Always.


5,451 posted on 01/24/2006 6:06:40 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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