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Posted by Neredbojias on 06/09/06 05:34
To further the education of mankind, "verity" <verity.gray@mac.com>
vouchsafed:
> I totally agree with you that one's own anger is the first enemy to
> overcome.
> However my point was that he did not commit any 'atrocities' until
> after the defenceless ones in his society were cowardly attacked and
> mutilated.
> He was fighting against people who appeared to have no soul; they were
> "non-humans" in a very real way to him & his followers.
....As were the "red skins" to some of the "white eyes": barbarbic, non-
human animals incapable of higher feeling and thought. Of course both
attitudes as applied to race are total hogwash, but it is interesting that
one can find individuals to which these labels are probably not too
inaccurately applied. My point is that Geronimo likely was such an
individual no matter what the reason. A leader such as Cochise, however,
could possibly have been the antithesis of this.
--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
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