[Buddha-l] Jung and Dignaga and social mores

[Dan Lusthaus]

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From: "Curt Steinmetz" <curt at cola.iges.org>
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Jung and Dignaga and social mores


> Dan Lusthaus wrote:
> >
> > His "disappointment" with Nazis -- which may very well have
> > arisen out personal frustrations with local Nazi friends rather than
larger
> > ethical awakenings -- came long after Kristallnacht, an event he was not
> > unaware of.
>
> Kristallnacht is small potatoes compared to what the Israeli government
> is doing in Gaza right now. And yet I do not for a minute believe that
> all those who accept or even approve of the cowardly, murderous and
> overtly genocidal actions of the IDF are morally bankrupt. They are
> simply wrong.
>
> The Shakers were eager to move onto lands recently cleared of the
> previous inhabitants by the genocidal actions of the US Army - and the
> Shakers even fancied that they had a spiritual connections with those
> very people whose demise they were only to happy to profit from.
>
> And so forth.
>
> Curt Steinmetz
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