XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/18/2016 5:47 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
      
   > It's true, living things have built in mechanisms to control   
   > populations.  That includes humans.  Hitler being one example,   
   > lemmings running off cliffs being another.  And if the built in   
   > mechanisms fail, nature takes over and does the job herself.  Always a   
   > very messy situation.  Better if a species can take care of the   
   > problem themselves.  As every human needs to appreciate.   
   >   
   > Or good intentions can have bad consequences, and vice versa.  We   
   > really have no idea of the consequences of our actions.  For instance,   
   > a hundred years from now  some descendant of yours might bomb London.   
   > You could have stopped it all by not having sex right then.  No matter   
   > how much you  love your wife/girlfriend.   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   > As Tang says, Hitler wasn't all bad.  He loved his girlfriend too.   
      
   Hitler was an artist, and his paintings do not look   
   half-way bad. He was a veggie, too. It is not a   
   clearcut case. In the human realm it is scarcely   
   possible to have any clearcut case. The good only   
   goes so far, and the bad goes only so far, to the   
   extent that one dares (or cares) to judge.   
      
   I regret the destruction of traditional Chinese   
   culture by Mao, but there may be good results   
   from his policies that may escape me. At least now   
   the unwashed Chinese masses are no longer   
   hungry. And the rich Chinese are hungrily buying   
   pieces of the West.   
      
   On absfg, some posters have intentionally removed   
   themselves from reproducing their genes, and are   
   proud of it. Few would know of this, but the late Hal   
   Hesse did, too. He would say that some of his   
   relatives had their kids, and his kids, too, too many   
   kids.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)