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Ana,

Now that you have told us what you have done and experienced ... it's
not hard to imagine the sacrifices you have made and the dangers you
have faced ... I am absolutely thrilled that someone like you is on
this list. It makes the Aditya Kauls of the world totally
inconsequential.

Tapas


On 5 December 2010 18:29, Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friends, it's really stimulating and intellectual challenging to follow
> the discussion and rise the level to discuss our ground questions: evil and
> goodness. Hanah Arendt wrote and spoke about "the banality of evil", the
> everydays small signs of evilness dominating the life, Tanatos, should Freud
> say, our dark nature using it's weapons to rule and conquest our souls.
> Germany was not a nation suddenly turned evil, but it was the evilness of
> some people turning the balance towards the evil.
> You come from the very country which succeed to disrupt an empire and turn
> down a colonial ruling using no violence and Mahatma Ghandi is the example
> we all learned to use when appealing to no violence as powerful as violence.
> I have been in Palestine ten, twelve times, and everyone is asking "why we
> don't have a Ghandi in the Middle East?".
> For myself, a firm partisan of the armed struggle when I was young (that's
> the reason of my four years imprisonment in Uruguay), the process has been
> long but clear, today I take distance from every intent to conquest the
> power with weapons.
> Ana
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