[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhism & War

[Tom Head]

On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Richard Hayes wrote:

>> How about the use of force (even deadly force) to stop or prevent  
>> more
>> widespread misery (that the other guy started)?
>
> That has been tried. If the present state of the world can be used as
> evidence, I'd suggest that the verdict is that that strategy is a  
> dismal
> failure.

But where's the control experiment--the world where this hasn't been  
tried?


Cheers,

Tom Head
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