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Old 12-29-2007, 07:24 AM
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Nah, I think you missed it... here's where I was going with that:

Stupid people, are "different from" evil people.

Why?

Because, "evil people", have "evil intentions".

"Stupid people", have no intentions at all - they just "get in the way".

The difference is, that "stupid" people, aren't doing anything "wrong".

And therefore, if you're "coercing" them, you actually are trampling on their freedoms.

See what I mean?

That act of saying "get out of my way", that "steamrolling over someone" like that, that's actually "coercion", right? Even if it's only "get out of my way", it's still an "intrusion" on their space, and I mean, the whole concept of "justice", is you don't do that unless the person's done something "wrong", which translates in most cases into "breaking the law", you know and I mean, if you "get in the way" of a cop, for example, that's "obstructing justice", right?

See where I was headed with this?

It's one of those interesting moral "boundary dilemmas"....
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