-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Aimee wrote:
>>>Should you ever rely on another man for your life, and he relies > on you for the same, perhaps you will know what "the urge to command, and > the will to obey" is really about. >> If you had ever been in a situation in which another man had your >> life in his hands--and consciously and deliberately made the decision to let >> you hang in the wind and die, you might understand why the truly prudent want >> nothing to do with it. >Umkay. Well, if we were in this situation, I would be glad that you felt >this way. It would give me a better chance at getting in this guy's outfit. ~Aimee Outfit? I suspect we're talking at right-angles to each other again: I wasn't thinking like Bataan and Corregidor, where you're dying for some "higher good" or other (though if you look at the Special Forces Creed, the Rangers Creed, etc. you'll see that leaving comrades to hang in the wind is anathema). I was referring to the far more banal kind of betrayal where you're left to die for no good reason other than picking the wrong person to piss off. Happens every day. Now whether you a) find being able to promote one's own interests in such cold blood admirable, b) take the cold-blooded approach yourself or c) prefer to asscociate with cold-blooded people, are three -->entirely<-- different issues. Command, obey...bah. The trouble with getting into power plays with psychopaths is that they're so darned unpredictable. I once heard a story about a quiet mild-mannered young sniper in a government operation which shall remain nameless. That night, everyone was sitting around the dinner table, eating and joking around. Then, the conversation turned to teasing this guy about some unimportant personal bullshit, nothing really. He sat there for a minute and took it, staring at his plate-- and finally, without changing the expression on his face, calmly turned to the guy sitting next to him... WHAM!! With one swift blow, drove his fork deep into the back of the taunter's hand. As everyone was freaking out and the guy howled in pain--finally, he showed some expression after all: he threw back his head and laughed. The moral of the story: Here's to staying the fuck away from people and living to fight another day. ~Faustine. *** He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPHwBo/g5Tuca7bfvEQJOJgCeKU6qifsKh3bhvKaQZSUS4oC6tWQAoLwT EYp0xrZ1ABUxS6T43dc++WqR =5K8B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
