Bill wrote:
>I am not a People person either, but I would say that ideas are more
>important than people. "Freedom" as an idea is worth dying and killing for.
>I dont care how many people die so that "freedom" exists for the others -
>including nuclear oblivion. So is "Individuality" and several others.
>People, though essential to ideas, are disposable on the grand scale easily
>demonstratable when we look at our history and remember perhaps .0001% of
>those that have lived. Many of us Americans would see many articles in the
>Bill of Rights as Ideas more valuable than peoples lives. Freedom of
>expresion, religion, carry fire arms, privacy - all worth killing or dying
>for in my opinion.
That sounds noble and all...but I know that I would not want to die before I hit twenty for someone else's Idea.
~kjs