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In article <aqgqi25bhkuhclik3ncik75hrrbrbpp1hu@4ax.com>,
 Binyamin Dissen <postingid@dissensoftware.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:27:17 -0500 bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:

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> You fail to understand how the "Xian kindness" shown thru the 
> centuries to the Jews might make me bitter?

I would probably understand better if it increased your determination 
to keep it from happening to anyone ever again. But yes, I fail to see 
how dehumanizing any specific group (including Jews) resolves the past 
or improves the future. Especially hard for me to grasp is when the 
dehumanizing impulse is brought about by the exemplification of the 
very best in human nature; that compassion and mercy which sets 
humanity apart from animals.

It seems more logical that seeing that in others would give purpose and 
foundation to your revulsion at what has happened to the Jews (and 
others as well, and continues to this day). 

Instead, it seems to aggravate you to descend to the very mindset you 
obviously deplore. I really don't mean to offend you or anyone else by 
saying that. It is just how it appears to me in this medium.

> :>You remember when that little boy was murdered in Italy while on 
> :>holiday with his American parents a few years ago? They donated his 
> :>organs so that Italian children could live. It was yet another 
> :>startling display of generosity of spirit in the center of chaos 
> :>and tragedy. It flies in the face of unthinking evil and 
> :>immeasurable pain, driving it away. I don't know about you, but I 
> :>see nothing to fault, and everything to praise.
> 
> Unless, of course, they gave the organs to the family of the 
> murderer.

They did it without any knowledge or choice about who received their 
son's organs.

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> From my experience, rewarding terrorism and murder just generates 
> more.

The wife and child committed no crime. They are not terrorists nor 
murderers. Quite the contrary. They neither conspired nor abetted. Why 
should they suffer for his deed?

-- 
"I wear boots when I play that ol' squeezebox
 Stompin' out rhythms
 'till the headstones dance on their graves"