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On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:59:28 -0500 bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:

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

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

:>> 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.

To repeat:

"Those that are kind to the cruel end up being cruel to the kind".

:>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.

Rewarding evil generates more evil.

:>> :>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.

SO the family of the murderer did not get them.

:>> 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?

How does NOT rewarding them make them suffer?

Do they deserve the reward? Why?

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