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From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 27 September 2002 23:16
Subject: Re: the emperor's portfolio
| >I agree that Blair isn't a fascist. Nor, I believe, is Saddam Hussein.
| >They're both morbid growths.
| >
| All of the political is "morbid", if the word can be stretched far
| enough to compass both of these figures.
I don't think it can. I think they are destructive of the political.
| In the following order: it is worst to kill people because you enjoy it,
| less bad to kill them simply to gain power (since not positive
| immorality - sadism - but only amorality, is involved), and less bad
| again to kill them because you're a coward (= out of moral weakness, a
| compromised good will).
well, that's a point of view
L
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