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Re: What about the first?
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:18:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> > > > The truth is that you don't have to be perfect to recognize (or
> > > > condemn) evil.
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> > > "Let he who is free from sin cast the first stone."
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> > So what are you trying to argue here? That *nobody* is worthy to confront
> > evil? That *nobody* has the moral authority to rise up against tyrants,
> > depots, or dictators? That *nobody* has the right to judge anyone else?
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> > I don't understand your implication.
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> I think he is simply asking for a little humility to be shown.
But what does that mean? Humility is irrelevant. Your obfuscation is a dodge.
JOHN
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| (...) When someone observed to Winston Churchill that his predecessor as prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, was a humble man, Churchill is reported to have replied, "And he has so much to be humble about." Ditto for some current European leaders (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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