Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:11:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: RE: disappeared


My stars.  Who am I to cast aspersions on the desires of the Chileans?
Who are *you*, Daniel, to get so worked up on their behalf?  (Maybe you
are someone; if so, well, fair enough.)

I do not deny anyone who has been persecuted their *right* to revenge, to
the desire for revenge.  It just seems to me that the world would be a
nicer place if people would forego that right.  I'd even venture that they
would feel better themselves, that the mania of revenge is not as
satisfying as attaining a position where you *could* have revenge--and the
object of your potential revenge knows it--but you show your lack of
consideration for the object by *not* taking revenge.  (Which, indeed, to
answer someone else's question, would be the attitude of the overman.  See
_Thus Spoke Zarathustra_, particularly the section titled "On the
Tarantulas").  Who am I to say that?  Well, no one.  I just offer it for
consideration--and again, I do not deny the Chileans their *right* to
revenge; I do not claim that they are *wrong* to react as they do; I do
not claim that they *should* react otherwise.

If this is conservatism, well, so be it.  As Gabriel Ash said, I have no
keys to any dungeons.

Matthew

 ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
    "Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy
    servant curse thee:  For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that
                  thou thyself likewise hast cursed others." 
 -----------------------------(Ecclesiastes)--------------------------------