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Thread #150885 Message #3520674
Posted By: MGM·Lion
30-May-13 - 08:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Unarmed soldier killed, (London-May 2013)
Subject: RE: BS: Unarmed soldier killed, Woolwich (London)
"by a tiny handful of people from a population of one and a half million (a point that you, along with Keith, continue to ignore)"
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I don't think anyone is ignoring that point, Jim; but youl are surely ignoring the consideration that it is not just their numbers, but the effect these individuals have, and their prominence and visibility, that matters. How many did it take to knock the Twin Towers down? 3, was it? I point out again that the statistics are overridden by the point made by Yeats [the greatest of Irish poets so I expect you will love his work as I do], that
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
It's that passionate intensity that does the damage, not the actual number who possess it. A sort of opposite of the Hegelian idea that at some point a quantative difference will morph into a qualitative one ~~ opposite because here it is the smallness, rather than the largeness, of the numbers at issue.
~M~