Re: virus: "Freedom, give it to me."

KMO (kmo@c-realm.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:59:48 -0800

Sodom wrote:

> Yes, please dont get me wrong, I have no martyr syndrome. I prefer life, but
> I put very few limits on the ends or methods I would use to maintain some
> "ideas" as mentioned above.

I'm not particularly concerned when people say that they are willing to die for an idea. I am very concerned when people say that they are willing to KILL for an idea.

Remember the scene in "Full Metal Jacket" in which the Marines were standing around the bodies of their fallen comrades trying to find the words that would give purpose to their deaths? Someone suggested that they died for "freedom."

"Bullshit," said the burly machine-gunner. "If I'm gonna die for a word, my word is "poontang.""

Level 1 or level 3?

-KMO