Another Rachel Corrie
Joseph Hertzlinger
Strider
LIKE HER MAY DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS TO LAUGH AT THE DEATH OF OTHERS!
"Joseph Hertzlinger" <jher...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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Joseph Hertzlinger
wrote:
> YOU ARE A MORON, JOSEPH, RACHEL WAS A HUMAN RIGHTS WORKER. SOME DAY
> PEOPLE LIKE HER MAY DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS TO LAUGH AT THE DEATH OF
> OTHERS!
She mainly defended the right of boneheaded Arabs to kick out people
they said were Russians.
As for laughing at her death... I was reminded of Eric Starnes in Ayn
Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."
| The third one is dead. Suicide. That was four years ago. It's an
| ugly story. He was the youngest of the three, Eric Starnes. He was
| one of those chronic young men who go around whining about their
| sensitive feelings, when they're well past forty. He needed love,
| was his line. He was being kept by older women, when he could find
| them. Then he started running after a girl of sixteen, a nice girl
| who wouldn't have anything to do with him. She married a boy she was
| engaged to. Eric Starnes got into their house on the wedding day,
| and when they came back from church after the ceremony, they found
| him in their bedroom, dead, messy dead, his wrists slashed.... Now I
| say there might be forgiveness for a man who kills himself quietly.
| Who can pass judgment on another man's suffering and on the limit of
| what he can bear? But the man who kills himself, making a show of
| his death in order to hurt somebody, the man who gives his life for
| malice --- there's no forgiveness for him, no excuse, he's rotten
| clear through, and what he deserves is that people spit at his
| memory, instead of feeling sorry for him and hurt, as he wanted them
| to be.... Well, that was Eric Starnes.
Treating people like that with disdain may save the lives of future
human shields ... but I think we should do that anyway.
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