Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site SCIRTP.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!SCIRTP!scott From: scott@SCIRTP.UUCP (Scott Crenshaw) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: American Hostages Message-ID: <338@SCIRTP.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 13:22:09 EDT Article-I.D.: SCIRTP.338 Posted: Tue Aug 20 13:22:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:53:30 EDT References: <1042@ihlpg.UUCP> <185@pyuxii.UUCP> <11045@rochester.UUCP> <1399@uwmacc.UUCP> <333@SCIRTP.UUCP> <726@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 38 Xref: watmath net.politics:10557 net.flame:11633 > On Americans in war zones deserving what they get: > > I can sort of see your point, but I find this attitude bothersome, > because it seems to echo statments I heard in the 50s and 60s > about how blacks who got beaten up for trying to enter all-white > establishments or segregated schools were getting their just deserts. > Also statements then and now about women wearing provocative clothing > or walking alone at night deserving to get raped. > > Do you also agree with these statements? Or do you perceive some > real difference between principles that I'm not sure I do? > Julie, I think there's a crucial difference. Americans voluntarily going into a war zone are entering a place where there is a clear danger to *anyone* there. Do they have legitimate rights to be there ? Its different with the blacks you mentioned. The places they entered were not dangerous to everyone. They felt that they had a legitimate right to be there. And someone who was not black could go there without danger. That's the difference. An injustice was being committed against blacks. But a war zone doesn't discriminate. It just kills. And anyone voluntarily going into a war zone should know that. -- (Scott Crenshaw @ SCI Systems , Inc.) {akgua,decvax}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!scott The views expressed are my own, not necessarily those of SCI Systems, Inc., or Monty Python.