Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00473)

Rodolfo Don wrote:
>
> >Rodolfo Don wrote:
> >> Interesting that Tibet never used land mines to protect itself from China,
> >> even if they were threatened, and finally overrun and occupied by Chinese
> >> forces.
> >
> >       And look what happened to the people of Tibet, as a result. Do you mean
> >to say that if they had used land mines, the result would have been
> >worse?

> If the Tibetans had chosen land mines their action would have been wrong.
> Right action is the only thing that matters. They can't control what the
> Chinese decide to do, but they can control what they themselves do. Can you
> imagine the Dalai Lama ordering his people to set land mines to kill
> chinese soldiers?

	It has been said that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for
good people to do nothing. If one is not willing to perform a lesser
evil to stop a greater evil, then it is the same as if one has performed
the greater evil.

	Bart Lidofsky