Sam, you are at it again. Context is all. If the means are immoral, their effectiveness does not of course legitimate them.
Thus Gibbon, in Chapter 28 of DFOTRE: At Minorca the relics of St. Stephen converted in eight days 540 Jews; with the help, indeed, of some wholesome severities, such as burning the synagogues, driving the obstinate infidels to starve among the rocks, . . . making it clear that, however desirable some might judge the conversion of the Jews to Christianity to be, this end did not justify these means. The question whether paper, PDF, or Book Manager versions of a document are examined does not have this character. I suggest that you try to learn to think things and not words. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
