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THEME: We need to stop killing people as Priority #1. If you are not alive, nothing else matters.
My “philosophical” posts attempt to avoid both religion & politics (as expressed at the end of my Oct 24, 2007 post). While this may be impossible, one can always hope for some universal commonality. (My posts not always successful.)
AND please start with my earliest posts (from Sept 30, 2007).
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the worst is to know and not do anything. but by that standard we are constantly not doing something about something terrible we know about. it means an informed person is the one who is most despicable and the more informed, the more dispacable. not to know is to be just a mammal which precludes choiice. but isn't it choice that makes us human?
Choice may make us human, but is that "better"?
The Choice
Suppose the line clicked dead
and no voices screaming
“STOP, it’s a mistake!”
could be fed to foreign ears?
Suppose the heavens
opened up and a rain
of missiles fell on earth
and strung a chain of neutrons
into the horror of every war
and the roar was louder
than the cries of every man
that ever died with a bullet
or bayonet in his throat,
And all the blood that
had ever spilled or stained
the earth was boiled
in one atomic vat?
Suppose the earth
became a ball of sun
and flamed until it
cindered into dust,
And laughter cracked
across the universe
as evil did rejoice?
Would God conclude
that His mistake
was giving man the choice?
--William Cohen
(Senator from Maine)
Also Secretary of Defense under Clinton.
an interesting question, but it assumes god is a moral entity amenable to the same moral standards we are. since i cannot believe a moral entity would make such choices, i do not believe in an all-powerful intellligent Creator.
i don't remember william cohen but the poem puts the moral conflict very succinctly.
For info on William Cohen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cohen
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