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Re: Biotechnology, demons and sustainability



Just as an aside, I was reading a memoir of some member of Gandhi's 
family a while ago, and they said that Gandhi conceded that passive 
resistance, in this case to the Japanese and Nazis, might not always work 
because the effectiveness of passive resistance is predicated on the good 
conscience of the person you are resisting. If you can demonstrate that 
your adversary is not going to feel in the wrong, or pressure from people 
who have power and sympathize with your position enough to advocate for 
you, gandhian tactics are not going to work. 

I have also read interviews with the Dalai Lama, where he says that he 
does not hate the Chinese, but he thinks they are behaving evilly, and 
should be stopped. Identifing someone as behaving evilly does not 
necessarily mean that you have stepped over into some sort of emotional 
extremism. It may just be a factual observation.



robert@plamondon.COM (Robert Plamondon) wrote:
>
>Are you seriously suggesting that Ghandi had it much easier than we did?
>That the removal of the British from India was unlike war?  That it
>did NOT involve control of India's culture, natural resources, and
>personhood?
>
>-- 
>Robert Plamondon, President/Managing Editor, High-Tech Technical Writing, Inc. 
>36475 Norton Creek Road * Blodgett * Oregon * 97326
>robert@plamondon.com * (541) 453-5841 * Fax: (541) 453-4139


-- 
Karen Stark
ks36@cornell.edu



 The habit of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those
 that have not got it.

        --G. B. Shaw





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