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Author Topic:   Two wrongs don't make a right (the (ir)rationality of revenge) - also gun control
anglagard
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Message 4 of 452 (518442)
08-06-2009 3:27 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by BMG
08-06-2009 12:14 AM


My father said that revenge is the emotion that promises the most yet delivers the least. Still don't know what source or if original.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen

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