XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   For all people know it might take twelve billion   
   to reach the mass necessary, critical, to escape Earth.   
      
   They may fly in their pods, seed-pods, expanding out in   
   to seed the galaxies, and beyond.   
      
   - the infinite   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)