From: "Ryk E Spoor" <resst11@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Virtual war and news media (was Re: MUDs and Magic)
Date: 14 Oct 91 04:26:47 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh



In article <1991Oct14.033838.11052@milton.u.washington.edu> bkuo@girtab.usc.edu (Benjamin Kuo) writes:

>[By the way, does anyone else feel exasperation at our supposedly modern,
>sophisticated officer corps continuing to use cliched expressions like
>the "good guys" and the "bad guys"?  Man, I feel like I'm back in the
>Middle Ages, with Believers and Heathens...! -- Bob Jacobson]

	'Fraid not. If you are in the military and believe your side is in
the right, then you darn well better believe in baddies and goodies. I
know that *I* would find it very hard to shoot at people if I didn't
feel they were in some way threatening what I believed in. I think that
most of these people sincerely believe that there is Good and Evil
in the world.

	And to be honest, so do I. Whether my perception of Good and
Evil accords with theirs is another question, but I am never surprised
at anyone perceiving the world as "us" and "them"... that's the way
most people live.


                                 Sea Wasp
                                   /^\
                                   ;;;