🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jan 16, 12:28 am, MI5-Vic...@mi5.gov.uk wrote:
> He lives on the other side of the water.
>
> 293. "Why do you kill me? What! do you not live on the other side of the
> water? If you lived on this side, my friend, I should be an assassin, and it
> would be unjust to slay you in this manner. But since you live on the other
> side, I am a hero, and it is just."
>
> 294. On what shall man found the order of the world which he would govern?
> Shall it be on the caprice of each individual? What confusion! Shall it be
> on justice? Man is ignorant of it.
>
> Certainly, had he known it, he would not have established this maxim, the
> most general of all that obtain among men, that each should follow the
> custom of his own country. The glory of true equity would have brought all
> nations under subjection, and legislators would not have taken as their
> model the fancies and caprice of Persians and Germans instead of this
> unchanging justice. We would have seen it set up in all the States on earth
> and in all times; whereas we see neither justice nor injustice which does
> not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude
> reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth. Fundamental laws
> change after a few years of possession; right has its epochs; the entry of
> Saturn into the Lion marks to us the origin of such and such a crime. A
> strange justice that is bounded by a river! Truth on this side of the
> Pyrenees, error on the other side.
>
> Men admit that justice does not consist in these customs, but that it
> resides in natural laws, common to every country. They would certainly
> maintain it obstinately, if reckless chance which has distributed human laws
> had encountered even one which was universal; but the farce is that the
> caprice of men has so many vagaries that there is no such law.
>
> Theft, incest, infanticide, parricide, have all had a place among virtuous
> actions. Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the
> right to kill me because he lives on the other side


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Shouldn't have used the word 'incest,' laddie;

...gives me an entry point to promote the truth about our present
tragic civilisation again, the truth nobody wants to read:
"I Still Miss Someone"
http://www.network54.com/Forum/57466/thread/1193285565/last-1193285565/I+Still+Miss+Someone