Showing posts with label Mohandas K. Gandhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mohandas K. Gandhi. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Criminally reckless abuse of folk wisdom

Is there a statute that covers that?

Last week Richard Cohen retold a quaint story in the Washington Post: Rabbi saves x many Jewish lives from a tyrant by promising the tyrant that if he leaves these Jews alone the rabbi will teach the tyrant's dog to talk, within a year. Rebbitzin reproaches him: "How are you going to do that? We'll all be killed!" Rabbi replies, "Well, a lot of things could happen in a year; the tyrant could die, or I could die... Or maybe the dog could start talking?"
Dog that looks like a lawyer. From freethinker.co.uk, and you should check out the link because there's a story attached to it.

Now, you will note that the rabbi in this story does not propose to flush out the tyrant's underground Jew-murdering facilities with GBU-28s, or anything like that. But this is [jump]