It Is Difficult To Offend

When I Was 14 Or 15, A Camp Counselor Told Me I Was Smart. I Had Never Been Very Good In School, But He Told Me Once That I Was Smart But My Mind Operated A Little Differently.

There Are Many Levels Of Truth.

To Ask About The 'source' Of Rights Or Morals Assumes An Erreous Conclusion. To Ask About The Source Of Morals Is To Assume That Such A Source Exists. As If It Existed Outside Of Human Constructed Systems. The 'source' Is The Human Ability To Learn From Experience And To Entrench Rights In Our Laws And In Our Consciousness. Our Rights Come From Our Long History Of Wrongs.

The Threat Of Mutually Assured Destruction Worked For The United States During The Cold War Because It Had Proved Its Willingness To Drop Nuclear Bombs On Enemy Cities At The End Of World War Ii. It Might Work Less Well For Israel, Because The Israeli Air Force Has Never Deliberately Targeted A Large Civilian Population Center, And Its Leaders Have Said Its Morality Would Not Permit It Do So.

No Country In The History Of The World Has Ever Contributed More To Humankind And Accomplished More For Its People In So Brief A Period Of Time As Israel Has Done Since Its Relatively Recent Rebirth In 1948.