| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Lone Eagle) |
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| Subject: | [OT] Good Blood Spirits |
| Date: | Mon Mar 25 04:40:00 2002 |
>That kind of self-sacrifice is acceptable. Slashing your own throat or
>throwing yourself into a furnace isn't, and it seemed that was the kind
>of self-sacrifice you people were talking about :).
I'd debate that; if you throw yourself into a furnace because if you don't
some guy will push a button... That isn't suicide, that's self sacrifice.
If you stay where the Romans have put you, in agony until you die when it
would not strain your power in the slightest to simply step down and carry
on sorting peoples problems out because it is neccesary that you take on the
sin of every human being and then die, that is sacrifice, not suicide.
if slitting your own throat saves the lives of those you care about; if you
rip your own heart out because your child needs it, and needs it now, no
time for anaesthesia. This is all self sacrifice, the hand that does the
killing is not important, it is the mind that makes the choice.
Here's another one, does the phrase "I'm just going out, I may be some
time." mean anything to you or am I being peculiarly English? Did Cpt. Oates
commit suicide, or did he sacrifice himself to give the rest of them a
chance to survive.
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