<p dir="ltr">Well who would we fight if we were all friends with each other?</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:31 Steven D'Aprano <<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info" target="_blank">steve@pearwood.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Completely off-topic. Stop reading now if you only want to read things about<br>
Python.<br>
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:46 am, Ben Finney wrote:<br>
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> \ “Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for |<br>
> `\ peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: what kind of |<br>
> _o__) peace?” —Noam Chomsky, 1984-05-14 |<br>
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With the greatest of respect to Chomsky, I think he is simply wrong about<br>
Hitler. Hitler actually believed that war was good for the national<br>
character, and indeed good for the soul, and that long periods of peace<br>
would enfeeble a nation and make it decadent and effete. Unlike a lot of<br>
people who believe the same thing, Hitler actually had experience in war,<br>
including a medal for bravery and a serious injury due to poison gas.<br>
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Many people over the ages have thought that if only war was more terrible,<br>
we would stop making it. Alas, that appears to be false: no matter how<br>
terrible war is, there is always someone who thinks that it is better than<br>
peace.<br>
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Steven<br>
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</blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"> - Nick</div>