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| A plea for objectivity. | |
| By BrianRobertNeal | ||||||||||||||||||
| 11 October 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
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This is a retitle and partial re-write/edit of "The relativity of Cruelty" The words I've set out for you to see Are a plea for objectivity. Asks the bitter cynic in my head Will you wave your flag or count your dead? His knife slashed the face and breasts, Of a hapless young stewardess, Whose crime was to wish a nice day? Don’t try to excuse this away. We’re told that “ends justify means” If to barbarity "means" tends And their fundaments are obscene, Have the "means" not destroyed “the ends”? However if barbarity Is by you and suffered by me It’s crime against humanity. Vice versa on the other hand Is something really rather grand As you all surely understand
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