Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:37:49 -0700
From: Kenneth Johnson <beeso-AT-pop.charter.net>
Subject: Re: Levinas






>There was a small boy on a bed in an Iraqi hospital a few days ago,
>quite possibly dead now, with both arms blown off at the shoulders
>after a coalition missile apparently struck his home. My nation helped
>do this evil to him, and I'll call it evil cos torment and suffering
>caused by war are simply evil by definition and in principle. It's like
>that little girl Anne Frank taken from her home and dying in the
>squalor of an enormous industrial extermination complex. One innocent
>death amongst millions and one unavoidably 'accidental' mutilation is
>all it takes to de-legitimize any talk of the good or justice in a war
>as far as I'm concerned. Some might try to 'justify' it on the grounds
>of political necessity and collateral damage, or more honestly just
>forget about justice and morality altogether in favour of the amorality
>of will to power as a means to a hopefully good end. But it's still
>evil.
>
>Regards,
>
>Malcolm

well, words are what we mean to mean with them and not what they 'are', i
wouldn't say evil myself i'd say bad, very bad, but in the end, in the case
you use it above there is no difference. because when an innocent child
suffers, no words really suffice - -

regards,
kenneth





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