"Tom Sherman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:skip said:Well from reading your post I'm thinking if everyone had lower loser
social status then there would be no privileged athletes, no popular
students from affluent families (the punk Goth loser killers were from
affluent families too as I recall), and no school authorities to share
the blame or to allow verbal abuse of the lower social status losers. We
would reap only what we could sow. More lower social status losers. And
of course that would mean affluent families for the most part would
disappear in a generation. No more double standards. No more
victimizations. No more pep rallies. No more victory celebrations. No
more gloating. No more winners - just losers.
Everyone would be assigned to the lower loser social class. The best of
all possible worlds, wouldn't you think, Tom?
When I was in primary education, I witnessed many instances of double
standards. If one of the students that had parents that were "nobodies"
(and/or were themselves of the lower social status among the student
population) physically assaulted another student they would be punished by
suspensions of various lengths, put in special classes for disruptive
students, etc. Yet several students who were starters in sports that had
parents with prominent positions in the community were allowed to punch,
shove, and verbally abuse less popular students on a regular basis with no
intervention from school authorities.
Mr. Sherman is right about a few things whenever he gets serious. There is
damn little justice in this world. But if there is SOME justice in this
world, that is about as good as it gets. Most religions arose from this very
complaint. Since there is no justice in this world, there will be nothing
but perfect justice in the world to come after this one when we pass on.
Mankind has been complaining about the lack of justice in this world from
the beginning of time. However, we see from the Soviet example (communism)
that they insure even less justice for men than do democracies (capitalism).
Quoted message said:While retaliation with deadly force is not morally justified in such
instances, the temptation to use it is certainly justified.
We see this on a larger scale, where nations proclaim their moral
goodness, but then commit military and economic violence against weaker
nations. Then the citizens of the abusing nations suffer "shock and
horror" when someone hits back.
Mr. Sherman is no doubt thinking of such nations as the former Nazi Germany
and Imperial Japan and certainly not the US. We are a democracy and it is
well nigh impossible to get a democracy to go to war. In fact, democracies
are dragged kicking and screaming into war. All aggression comes from
non-democracies. All democracies ever want to do is to live in peace and
prosper. This can in fact be a fatal flaw of democracies.
Quoted message said:It is long past time for people with privilege to gain some empathy for
how their actions affect others. It is rather unbecoming to behave in an
immoral manner, and them complain about the immoral retributive actions of
others.
Mr. Sherman would have made an excellent preacher. He would have excoriated
others to be better than they want to be. I too would have made an excellent
preacher, but I would have come at them from the opposite direction. I would
have instilled the fear of God into them by telling them how deserving they
were of Hell because of their sinfulness. Mr. Sherman would preach hope and
love and I would preach despair and fear. Between the two of us, we would
have a good and moral flock.
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Regards,
Saint Edward - Order of the Perpetual Miseries - Minnesota
