Who said that is was okay to provide us with tools for self destruction, such as drugs, firearms, etc?
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I say.\n\nEverything is dangerous. Live with it, but be careful.
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I think it was a little bit of both. He was right for helping people who did not want to live an agonizing life and just wait around to die. \nBut it was also against the law. I do not know what his motives were, so I can not say if he was being kind to these people by helping them or if he was convincing them to die just for fun of having that type of control.
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Me? Absolutely none.\n\nThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin\n\nOne of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1886)\n\nIf you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)\n\nGovernment is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington\n\nThe true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke (1899)\n\nThe evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. – John Hay (1872)\n\nThe best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone. – Thomas Rudmose-Brown\n\nI should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. – Alexis De Toqueville\n\nThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken
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Ahem... No.\n\nIt is called assult with a deadly weapon - and drunk or not, it is illegal and not OK.
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lots of things...\n\n\nWhat one does not wish for oneself, one ought not to do to anyone else; what one recognises as desirable for oneself, one ought to be willing to grant to others
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Mahatma Gandhi said "An eye for an eye will make the world blind" .  Revengeful reactions will never end. If an individual try to avenge a particular action , it will become endless and whole humanity gets affected.
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I've read Night, Dawn, and The Accident several times each. The quote didn't sound familiar, so I WikiQuoted it...\n\n"A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other." \nIt's from a Nobel Lecture, 11 Decemeber, 1986.
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I think we should do what that general suggests.  There has never been a war, in which a force that went and lived up to laws of morality, and the other side did not, and the first force, winning.  Sometimes, you just have to be cruel to win.  I think what this general says is a great idea (I know it sounds kind of sick)  Just kill the people that decide to ruin other's lives, I see no wrong in that.
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You are upsetting me.  I have searched all of Orwell's works with that quote and no source is turning up, just that it is a quote attributed to Orwell.  I have read 1984 several times, and this quote is ringing all kinds of bells.  It has to be from that book.  I will keep looking for it.  It is personal now.\n\nGot it...\n"The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell" Volume 4, page 51
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Although those words were addressed to the past, they are also quite appropriate for our day.\n\nNotice also his words to Timothy, concerning events that would definitely occur in our day:\n\n"But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away."
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We should say, to protect ourselves, not for killing each other, not for going to ruin the nature.  \n\nThere's no need to have guns when we respect each other with love in the whole world.
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No but that is a fantastic quote.\n\nFound it!  Thomas Dewar
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Bed posts,brooms, mops,baseball bats,kitchen utensils,knitting needles,razor blades,school busses,mack trucks,G-I- Joe dolls,tennis shoes,vacuum cleaners,rubber duckies,pet animals,snapping turtles,needles and pins,jack hammers,cucumbers,some yard tools,like lawn mowers,weed wackers,and mulching machines,and all kinds of dangerous products, like acid, paint remover,and gasoline.NOW! do you understand why we always say use protection?
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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You would have to define that question a lot better for anything but a hostile response.  The answer of course is no, but if you are a third world country who government needs a scapegoat, it is easy to point at us and say things that are untrue and get them to believe it because we have it, they do not, hence we must be doing something dishonest to get it since they do not have too right?\n\nIf people started educating themselves and stopped shooting at one another, they too could have what we have.\n\nJohn B.
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"My Dark Desires"\n"If I started murdering people, there'd be none of you left." (Charles Manson from one of his very entertaining parole hearings)
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"Clinton also stated that, while other countries also had weapons of mass destruction, Hussein is in a different category because he has used such weapons against his own people and against his neighbors."\n\nThat says it all, doesn't it?