Rule of the imbecile
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—– Original Message —–
From: “Tudor Georgescu”
> Well, then there is certainly a huge discrepancy between the decent
> aspirations of most people in the world and the deeds of the political
> systems which comprise them. Democracy did not change things for the
> better;
> it just created the illusion that human rights would be the cornerstone of
> human civilization since the adoption of Universal Human Rights
> Declaration.
> So, democracy is condemnable because is a hypocrite regime. The atomic
> bomb
> was invented by a liberal democracy — this shows that democracy shares
> the
> same dedication to destruction as Hitler had, perhaps it uses destruction
> more wisely, but it can never pretend that it does not perpetrate mass
> murder and destruction. At least Hitler did not cover his devilish deeds
> with humanistic mumbo-jumbo.
In the EQ vs. IQ debate, I was willing to put you in the IQ category - until
I read the above childishly simplistic non-sequitur. As William F. Buckley
once observed, that’s like arguing that there’s no difference between
pushing an old lady into the way of an incoming bus and pushing an old lady
out of the way of an incoming bus, because either way you’re pushing old
ladies around.
