Natural law above industrialism and revenge

A letter from Bill Dampier, Sacramento, California

Dear Friends at JUST Response,

Re: Unquenchable thirst for revenge by Todd & Jill Schneider (JUST Response, Letters, Jan 25 2003) and American Taliban by Daniel Patrick Welch (JUST Response, Dec 21 2002)

Thanks. Good article and letter. The idea of revenge has, it seems to me, a mirror side – fear. You might say that the "R" people are afraid, that their desire for revenge is a projection of their own fear. It is a very dangerous fear, similar to what drove the Nazi Party to attack any German opposition with such cruel aggression. They, like the junta we have, had traduced the most basic aspects of the Western Canon and the Law it expresses. They, like our junta, feared justice itself.

The greater conflict, it seems to me, is one between industrialism and natural law. Natural law must prevail and the adherents of industrialism must fail. Thus their fear is well justified – as is our fundamental human optimism.

Note: This letter was published by JUST Response on January 27 2003.

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