Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00019)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "M K Ramadoss" wrote:
 
> Krishnamurti:

> Before, evil was recognized to be
> evil, murder was recognized to be murder, but now murder is a means 
to
> achieve a noble result. Murder, whether of one person or of a group 
of
> people, is justified, because the murderer, or the group that the 
murderer
> represents, justifies it as a means of achieving a result which will 
be
> beneficial to man. That is we sacrifice the present for the future - 
and it
> does not matter what means we employ as long as our declared purpose 
is to
> produce a result which we say will be beneficial to man.

It's just a bunch of old platitudes, though the wrong ones, for in
middle ages and probably in all ages murder was also justified by
noble ends. Anyway, to preach such things is much safer than to
promote false christs or write about life on Mars. It's one of the
means to be respectable.