At Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:12:27 -0500, you wrote:
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>Reed:
>>That doesn't mean you don't think seriously about
>>what people say to you. I just means that, at the
>>moment of confrontation, you have to throw everything
>>into fray..and then some. It's like a marathon, if
>>you aren't sick and puking by the end, then you
>>didn't really give it all you could.
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>This statement makes me a little wary. I stand by it.
>In needs to be resolute. But I feel the need to make this
>caveat: there is always a way to negotiate, one just
>has to be creative enough to find it. To engage in
>aggressive behavior is always an indictment of the
>aggressor. Yes, I recognize the irony in that statement.
>But sometimes you have to be resolute.
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>Reed
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What about this? One must strive to be resolute enough in defense to prevent aggression from achieving its goals and instead force it to pay a stiff price, so that aggression will subsequently be abandoned by the aggressor as a counterproductive strategy.
> Reed Konsler konsler@ascat.harvard.edu
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher