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Respectfully, two platitudes don't make a right either... And Ghandi, well, what did he do? Free India from the big bad Brits who would have otherwise devoured India? Please don't underestimate the British will to be independent of India...
Ghandi's most personal contribution was the disasterwith the Muslims. So Ghandi spun his will, and left, what, ten million dead on the subcontinent in his wake? When did the Brits kill ten million Indians?

Sorry about the roughness of the thoughts...
PA

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by Patrice Ayme on Tue Jun 2nd, 2009 at 03:08:07 PM EST
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Re: Force as in physics (none / 1)

some of your thoughts are rough, patrice, it's true.

i was using ghandi as an example of moral force, and its use, through inspiring millions of desperately exploited people. putting his agenda under a microscope wasn't my intention!

i think another point to make is that force against totalitarianism is a martyr's job.

snark is better for sinking dictatorships.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jun 3rd, 2009 at 11:27:54 AM EST
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