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The Logics Of The Goon

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Visits: 2,258 When the Caliph decided to destroy the Library Of Alexandria * , it has been reported he yelled:"If these books contain nothing more than that which is written in the book of God (el Koran), they are useless; if they contain anything contrary to the sacred book, they are pernicious; in either case, burn them."This notorious explanation could have been rephrased in its exact contrary, preserving plausibility: if these books contain nothing more than that which is written in the book of God, they can be spared for they say nothing against it and therefore are not pernicious; and if they contain anything contrary to the sacred book, they can be spared as well because either the reasons of our God are stronger already than any book, or they aren't the reasons of God what we are claiming.  
 
The Caliph considered himself pious upon the same grounds that made him blasphemous.  
This might happen also because, if the Gospels say "do unto others as you would have others do unto you", there ought to be an obvious integration to that dictum, namely that we cannot do unto others anything else but what we have already done unto ourselves.  
So, expecting the others not being able to supply us but with what we have supplied ourselves with already, we may be able to inflict unto them only the destruction of culture and humanity we have endured already.  
 
Of course, something altogether different than what the Caliph advocated was sufficient. A splendid silence was never written, but bad prose gets written pretty often. So, I'd prefer being silent rather than contributing something that is not crystal clear to myself in the first place.  
This may not guarantee that our good prose won't be still bad, and yet it may guarantee at least that our worst one isn't be going to be seen and read; it will not rid the world of Caliphs, but it may deprive them of the excuses they needed not to be thugs.
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