Burning witches to prevent them from casting spells doesn't work, because there are no witches casting evil spells is the first place. On the other hand, people who have knowledge other people want to have do exist.
No wonder you thought 2001: A Space Oddyssy was too hard to understand. You have the mental agility of a gerbil, if the gerbil's mother drank and smoked while she was expecting the litter.
--- On Fri, 4/24/09, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:
>
> Ah, someone old enough to remember what a civilised society
> used to
> be like. How quaint.
>
> Anyhow, speaking of burning witches, isn't the important
> question not
> so much whether it is civilised to burn witches, but
> whether it works?
>
> By all accounts it did work. 100% of the time. Not one of
> the witches
> burnt at the stake ever cast evil spells again.
>
> Better safe than sorry. So it is quite inconsistent that
> the
> ever-practical Bush & Cheney didn't revive
> burning witches as well.
> Or do you think there might be more revelations to come?
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas
>
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