[TheForge] Fw: Can't compete w/ this

[Andrew Vida]

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons?  What are the right 
things?  Who determines this, and upon what basis?  And what of those of 
us who do not wish to toe a line?  Apply force?  Jail them?  Slay them? 
  What?  Too extreme?  Cannot happen?  Recall the French Revolution, 
Hitler, Stalin, Turks marching 2 million Albanians to their deaths, the 
Trail of Tears, Pol Pot, Darfur, Hussein, Idi Amin, Rwanda, Balkan and 
other flavors of "ethnic cleansing"... the list can go on quite a ways. 
  In all these cases one group felt they had the bull by the balls where 
truth was concerned.  I'm comfortable believing those on the receiving 
end felt differently about it.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.  More to the point, 
those who seem so convinced that they have cornered the market on the 
truth have been proven to be full of crap in every case I can think of. 
  Just look at the checkered history of religion for some fine examples.

xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
> Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>> Seems to me that the real, adult scientific community has come very 
>> nearly to a consensis on this, that the possible consequences may be 
>> profound...
>> And if they are completely wrong, taking it seriously would have us 
>> doing the right thing for the wrong reasons...pete f
>>
>>   
> I have to say when it is all said and done, this is about where I 
> fall.   Just another variation on Pascal.
> 
> Charles