Aucbvax.2304 fa.arms-d utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!PDL@MIT-DMS Thu Jul 16 06:15:36 1981 [Re: [Re: Snap!]] From: PDL at MIT-DMS (P. David Lebling) Whatever the defects of a country that kills people who are not its citizens, one which kills its own is much worse, since the only excuse for government is the protection of its citizens. A government which massacres them instead is not a government but a cancerous growth. I have no idea what you think "democracy" means, but it refers to the process by which decisions are arrived at, and has little or nothing to do with the decisions themselves. Thus, democracies have waged war, including civil wars, established concentration camps, and done all sorts of disgusting things without stopping being democracies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.