Chaz is insecure about his feelings.
Typical jock.[/QUOTE]
FEEEELINGS!!![/QUOTE]
NOTHING MORE THAN FEELINGS!
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Let me just paraphrase the importance of this award. "If you want peace, then work for justice." At a superficial level, this simple slogan contains an important half-truth. At a deeper level, it contains a more profound half-truth. To understand these half-truths and why they are only half true, we need to know what peace is and what justice is, and we need to understand the relationship between the two. So in this talk I want to explore the meanings of peace and justice, their relationship, and the role of economic reform in attaining both.
More Articles of Interest
* Peace, justice, and economic reform - Philosophy of Justice
* Henry George on Land Ownership: A Comment on Pullen - article by John Pullen...
* On Separating the Landowner's Earned and Unearned Increment: A Georgist...
* Henry George on Property Rights: Reply to John Pullen
* Henry George and the Austrian economists - History of Thought
"If you want peace, then work for justice." The more obvious and superficial meaning of this slogan is that people who are treated unjustly will prevent the attainment of peace until the wrongs to which they are subject are righted. Demonstrators shout: "No justice. No peace." The apparent meaning of peace in this case is tranquility, the absence of strife. And if this meaning of peace is accepted, the slogan is true. You cannot expect to end strife as long as people have unresolved grievances. But the reason that this is only half true is that this meaning is only a shadow of what peace really is.
Peace is more than armistice, more than the cessation of violence. Peace is unity and harmony. In a peaceful world people are all pleased to cooperate with one another. When we have attained true peace, there will be no person who has any purpose that any other person seeks to thwart. In a peaceful world, everyone will feel the truth of the words from John Donne's "Meditation XVII":
No man is an Island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent; a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, and well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Thank you, God bless, you've been a wonderful audience. I Ogre, accept this Nobel Prize with the dignity and responsibility that is bestowed upon it.
