From: "J. Ransom" <dickins-AT-tin.it>
Subject: R: revenge / justice
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:49:50 +0100


Yeah, and not just Pinochet but all these people who murdered countless
people in the name of some higher ideal. I mean for instance there are,
quite rightly, some people who make it their life's work to hunt down and
bring to justice the last remnants of the Nazi death machine. This work is
winding down only because the criminals in question are getting very very
old. But there must also still be individuals around who are not even that
old yet but who were involved in the Cambodian massacres, as well as the
suppression of human rights in old East bloc countries, not to mention the
old Soviet Union itself. Foucault, not that we need his example for this (I
mention it only because this is a Foucault list) worked very hard against
Franco, especially the death sentences that were carried out via garrotting.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Rubin <j_rubin-AT-hotmail.com>
To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
<foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Date: Monday, November 16, 1998 11:16 AM
Subject: revenge / justice


>Nietzsche's point is that once people lose their stomach but not their
>taste for blood they invent Justice.
>Clearly Pinochet never suffered from such qualms.
>Lock him up and throw away the key - worry about whether it was revenge
>or justice or symbolically upholding the rule of law later.
>
>Jon.
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