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Jeff Wilson · 19 Jan 2011, 23:05 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:05:10 -0600
Subject: (urth) (no subject)
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On 1/19/2011 8:57 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> I think "many in the rest of the world have a negative view" is correct.
> It is a little more nuanced than "most of the rest of the world consider
> it one of the worst crimes ever against humanity".

I would have to rank it a distant third behind the Killing Fields and 
the Rape of Nanking.

But I think I've gotten us off track, getting so wound up in man's 
inhumanity to man. I need to say that my dad also represents the 
positive side of obedience in unthinkable things in that despite being 
raised in small-town Arkansas he still followed orders to risk his life 
guarding the black students from the white mob at the integration of 
Central High in Little Rock as a national guardsman.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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