[MR] A caution

[Terry L. Neill]

> > Terrorist scum sucking Vomit licking Pigs
>
>Fiends, yes.  Evil, rotten sons of bachelors, absolutely.  Scum sucking
>vomit licking pigs, even.  But, let's not imagine that our enemies are 
>weak,
>stupid, or craven, lest we be rudely surprised.


While I agree with the feelings behind these sentiments; I caution us all.

Let us not reduce these people to less than human.  Although the acts they 
have committed are unspeakably evil, they are still *human*.

To try to reduce our enemies to less than human, is to deny the humanity in 
ourselves.  And it also makes it easier to hate.

I profoundly hope that the legacy of these terrible atrocities is a 
*strengthening* of our own humanity.  That we look to our core beliefs, as 
laid out in our Constitution, and hold deeply to them.  It is easy to accord 
rights to our friends.  It is transcendent to insist they be applied to our 
enemies as well.

- Anarra

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