and if the professional killer is a psychopath, s/he generally kills without feeling anything for the victim. to say whether or not a professional killer always does so without anger is to great a generality to hold up.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Perelman" <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Cultural Change? ( Marxist democracy)
Professional killers supposedly do so without anger.
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 07:44:46AM -0400, Hari Kumar wrote:
>
> Because of the putative health benefits of Bhuddist reflection (actually,
the literature usually talks of meditation without the descriptor Bhuddist -
& the same applies with various non-Bhuddist meditations including some
Hindu derivatives. I have not seen literature re the more ascetic Christian
variants of meditation etc).
> In an aired radio interview with a psychology researcher from Duke, the DL
was asked whether if he was sitting next to hitler he would kill him.
> The DL consulted apparently with his colleague lamas, & then said along
the lines:
> "Yes - I would kill him if I cold. But the important thing is to do it
without any anger in your heart".
>
> Now I think the DL is a sort of nice chap - all giggly etc. This was a
revealing comment.
> My sister who is a Hindu 'guru' - uses similar terminology, the great sin
is 'attachment. She counts the DL as a personal friend.
>
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