Of course Ed, there is always the chance they might read the newsgroups 
and/or mailing lists. I have seen several entirely practical plans for a 
terrorist organization to take over or at least demolish Israel. As well 
as several not especially difficult to apply plans for removing the USA 
as a world power for, oh six months to a year. During which it could 
then be effectively permanently erased.

 The long term results of such plans vary from a dead world to the end 
of our current civilization but would a true fanatic care?


 In the world under discussion I would imagine several lists would start 
discussions on what the Youma are doing wrong and how they could improve 
the  effectiveness of their attacks. On a theoretical basis of course 
and also talking about how to defeat them more easily as well.
 Can you say Forewarned is ....

There is an old Heinlein Story which couldn't be published until well 
after W.W.II because it would have given any Nazi who read it , a near 
perfect blueprint on how to hurt, maybe even stop the USA's involvement 
in Europe. The same way Hiroshima and Nagasaki convinced the Japanese. 

-- 
Rick Robinson
RICHARDROBINSON@prodigy.net


If violence is not solving your
problems you're just not using enough of it.

				 Misato

"I guess I'm just an old-fashioned sentimentalist at heart.  I refuse
 to accept a no-win scenario.  I hate the thought of a universe without
 justice.  If the maneuverings of dark powers can't be exposed and
 defeated by the pure of heart, then there's no point in anything.  I
 can't believe that."
                               -- Benjamin Hutchins



Edward Becerra wrote:

At 19:57 1/8/2004 -0800, Bombadil Goh wrote:

I'm just raising a possibility here that I would see
really happening in the background of this world setting
and why Beryl and etc would do the overt force route if
they were portrayed in an intelligent manner.

        The only problem with this, Bomb, is that evil
_rarely_ acts in an intelligent manner. While it's something
of a clich�' to say that being evil "damages the reality lobe
of the brain", there seems to be something to it.

        It's pretty much a given that to be evil means being
selfish & self-centered, and that does tend to make a person
short-sighted. After all, if you don't care about anyone
other than yourself, and you ARE going to die eventually
(even if 'eventually' is defined as "When the universe itself
winds down"), then you tend to focus on short-term goals only,
and that leads you to make long term errors in judgment.

        Greed and selfishness are great motivators, but when
combined with impatience, they tend to bork a person's
judgment badly.

        A French king expressed it best, I think (or was it
Napoleon?), when he said "After me, the deluge!"
Meaning, of course, "I don't give a damn what happens to
France, as long as it doesn't happen until AFTER I'm dead.
The commoners? Oh. Screw them."

        The Japanese (or at least those who write the anime
and the manga) seem to have a pretty good grasp of this most
embarrassing side of human nature.

        I doubt you could get a Clue(TM) into the heads of
Beryl or her generals even if you engraved it on a .50 BMG
and shot it into one ear.

        Just the nature of the beast.

        Ed Becerra

        "Dreamers may die, but the Dream is eternal..."

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