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Re: Thinking Out Loud...
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Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:48:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
> > Hello Eric,
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> > > I have to jump in...
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> > So do I. BTW, I think I understand at least part of the emotionality of the
> > issue, but we simply cannot afford to let our action be guided by it, so
> > here goes my response:
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> > > What do you think pacifism at a time like now is going to get us?
> > > All it will get us is more innocent Americans (among others) killed.
> >
> > And your evidence for that is ... ?
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> Flight 93.
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> Thank *all that is worth living for* that the heroes on board that flight
> *weren't* pacifists.
I heard on the news today (unconfirmed, so it could be wrong) that the
cockpit voice recorder on 93 has "clear evidence of sounds of battle in the
cockpit just prior to the plane going down".
Pacifists don't typically get involved in battles. Some people on that
flight apparently weren't pacifists. Thank goodness.
++Lar
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| (...) However I think being a passenger on a hijacked airliner, with reports that at least one other similar airliner may have just flown straight into a not-so-very-far-away building, is *not* a typical situation. Consider: A man is walking along (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Flight 93. Thank *all that is worth living for* that the heroes on board that flight *weren't* pacifists. Would any of us have had the courage to do what they did, knowing that it meant almost certain death, in order to save the country from a (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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