Re: Eliot Spitzer, antismoking leader, self-destructs

"tim" <TimJ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:19:08 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:43:57 -0700 (PDT), Alistair
>> <alistair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>You've set yourself up as an arbiter of all that is moral and good.
>>>You denounce others for holding a viewpoint that is at variance with
>>>your own but is not inconsistent with the teachings of your holy book.
>>>Just who do you seriously think you are?
>>
>> So has bin Laden.   It is my hope that the good guys use different
>> criteria to evaluate all that is moral and good than the bad guys do.
>
> It is not just about having different criteria. It is also having the
> humility to realise that one person does not necessarily have access to
> the whole truth and that other people's viewpoints may also be valid. It
> is about letting other people live their lives and not arrogating to
> oneself the right to decide on behalf of others what is right and wrong.
>
> Tim

Well said, Tim.

Pete.
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