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Thread #97586   Message #1926508
Posted By: Amos
04-Jan-07 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: When Big Things Move...
Subject: RE: BS: When Big Things Move...
Slag:

There are distinctions that must be made. It is not just size that causes things to die when big things move.

An individual placed in command of a big thing, by necessity, is heir to responsibility for how he moves it.

Humans have a lot of tolerance for stress and unexpected change -- it's why they have survived so well -- but that does not mean that right action is to recklessly impose extreme changes and violent stress on others.

War, and armies, are an excellent example. The reason this government is takent ot ask for its use of large, blunt objects like the US Army is not that it was moved, but that it was sent into a killing war intentionally, not because there was no other choice but because it was preferred by someone with an appetite for throwing large amounts of weight around.

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