From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dbd35bb508093bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-10 14:14:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.tufts.edu!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:14:13 -0500 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021203 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT Hatred (was Re: New Ada compiler for .NET) References: <3DEA5CC0.6B435E66@adaworks.com> <3df55f03_2@news.tm.net.my> <1039531607.289271@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1039558453.132840@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1039558454 12820 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31658 Date: 2002-12-10T17:14:13-05:00 List-Id: Michal Nowak wrote: > They were doing their best to defend their own country. Doing your best, being brave, defneding your own country all mean nothing against superior technology. The world is not thriller fiction. > The longer I read this thread, the more I realize that something > is wrong. With the world or with me. Maybe I'm to naive or > not mature enough or not educated enough wishing that there > was only peace everywhere and that everyone was living in > happiness and abundance. Or maybe I was born in wrong times... Has there ever been a "right" time where there was peace everywhere and everyone living in happiness and abundance? I doubt it. The basic problem always is that there exist people whose goals are in conflict. In many cases, one or more sides will decide to use force to achieve their goals. That is why everyone must arm. You cannot force your opponents to peace, and you cannot leave yourself undefended.