lbo-talk-digest V1 #6341

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Jun 19 15:32:26 PDT 2002


frank scott wrote:
>
> "The majority of people today find it more abhorrent to be tortured
> than to be simply killed. Maybe you are an exception, and you'd
> rather be tortured than simply killed."
>
> "simply" killed? whew...haven't seen that particular poll, and don't
> think much of polls anyway,

This makes one suspect you have never experienced real pain. I can't imagine anyone who has (or who has any imagination) not regarding this as a given, hardly requiring a poll.

Why do people jump to their death out of burning buildings?

Carrol



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