[Peace-discuss] Bellicose rhetoric???

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yet Jesus is silent before Pilate, altho' I doubt he considered lying.


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
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> John W. wrote:
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>> Chomsky says that he differs with his Quaker friends who recommend telling
>> truth to power.  Power already knows the truth, he says, and tries to cover
>> it up.
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>> This is true.  Personally, I think it's often more useful to speak lies to
>> (those in) power.  But of course you have to figure out what you want to
>> accomplish with your lies.
> 
> One reason that it _Can_ be useful to speak the truth to those in power is
> that they are at times subject to blind spots from which they can recover if
> pointed out by the word fitly spoken.
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