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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/nenya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Galadriel-must I fetch my axe?
Lindil makes a very succinct and bright point when he distinguishes between being and doing. I believe that what frustrates the likes of Taimar, Kittle (and myself, to tell the truth), is that being seems an inadequate -- even an irresponsible -- stance in the face of active evil. Neville Chamberlain's motive at Munich, "Peace in our time," was reasonably laudable in and of itself but it seems to me to have been somewhat impertinent granted the circumstances.
To have been the escapist artist Henri Matisse ("I want to make art that is like an easy-chair"
at the same historical moment appears to me to be morally obtuse if not not morally culpable.
Perhaps enrichment is something better practiced when the grossest kinds of injustice and cruelty are relatively quiescent? Perhaps evil is sometimes gross enough that wisdom is less relevant than principled action? Yes I realize that JRRT offers the cautionary counter-example of Boromir, but I must admit that I find his motives easier to swallow than Galadriel's.
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Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000201>galpsi</A> at: 8/9/00 7:00:40 am