From: billy@anon.com 
  
 "JNugent"  wrote in message news:ll07r7Fk1ek 
 1@mid.individual.net... 
  
 > Wasn't it Kant who pointed out that one must be taken to will 
 > the ends of whatever one proposes (or words to that effect)? 
  
 Er, no. Precisely the opposite in fact. 
  
 In his  "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals" of 1785, Kant argued that 
  
 quote: 
  
 "Whoever wills the end also wills the indispensably necessary means to it 
 that 
 is within 
 his control " 
  
 :unquote: 
  
 IOW the end justifies the means 
  
 Not as you're arguing above, that the means necessarily justifies the end. 
  
 While as to Vietnam itself, making the country sufficiently attractive to 
 the 
 likes 
 of Jeremy Clarkson and the boys to make an episode of "Top Gear" there, 
 would 
 surely have been incentive enough for the marchers; had they only known at 
 the time. 
  
 Before: "Apocalypse Now", "The Deeehunter", "Platoon" 
  
 After: "Top Gear Vietnam Special" 
  
 What's not to like ? 
  
  
 bb 
  
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