-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/07 09:29, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/04/07 13:15, Joe Hart wrote: >> [snip] >>> Well, >>> Good is a relative term. To some people something is good while other >>> people think the same thing is not good. For example good food. >> Human sacrifice was considered Good by the Aztecs, as was burning at >> the stake and hanging by the Protestant witch hunts and Spanish >> Inquisition. > > Exactly, but we consider human sacrifice today to be a bad thing.
That's my exact point. What we consider murder, they considered politics and religion. > Historically Americans also thought that destroying Indians (more To me, this is a great paradox of American history. The US Army *could* have slaughtered *all* the "savages", man woman & child. But they didn't. There were (broken, of course) peace treaties (that even the SCOTUS tried to enforce) and Reservations on "sub-prime" land. I see an internal American clash between, on the one hand, Christian civility, and on the other, traditional human greed and conquest. > politically correct to say Native Americans) but that was certainly > genocide, which is now an international crime and frowned on by almost > everyone. > >>> Evil is generally considered a bad thing, but Evil is also the first >>> name of a good motorcycle stunt man. >> Evel, not Evil, Knievel. > > My bad. At least it is pronounced the same. I'd have thought you'd have recognized "Evel Knievel" as a Dutch name. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPOhhS9HxQb37XmcRAmBFAKCJybzo50sS+/6XdgHYsvQaj9zSKQCZAX0U uFuonie+tvVAhjM5Fsb6ipE= =6ecM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
