Well who would we fight if we were all friends with each other? On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:31 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Completely off-topic. Stop reading now if you only want to read things > about > Python. > > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:46 am, Ben Finney wrote: > > > \ “Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for | > > `\ peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: what kind of | > > _o__) peace?” —Noam Chomsky, 1984-05-14 | > > > With the greatest of respect to Chomsky, I think he is simply wrong about > Hitler. Hitler actually believed that war was good for the national > character, and indeed good for the soul, and that long periods of peace > would enfeeble a nation and make it decadent and effete. Unlike a lot of > people who believe the same thing, Hitler actually had experience in war, > including a medal for bravery and a serious injury due to poison gas. > > Many people over the ages have thought that if only war was more terrible, > we would stop making it. Alas, that appears to be false: no matter how > terrible war is, there is always someone who thinks that it is better than > peace. > > > > -- > Steven > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- - Nick
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