Jim Forest wrote:
>>Please re-read the passage Merton passage I quoted. He is not saying the sane are the bad guys, only that people whom we regard
as perfectly sane are quite capable of initiating actions, or assisting in them, which may take the lives of vast numbers of people.<<
In the passage you quoted, Merton implies that it is often sane men who carry out evil actions. When they do so, when they "initiate the great festival of destruction," is he not dubbing them "bad guys," in the colloquial sense of that phrase?
>>Perhaps one might say Merton also raises a question -- I expect Percy would as well -- whether our definition of what constitutes sanity is adequate.<<
Yes! Exactly what I was trying to say, though perhaps not very clearly.
Best regards,
Michael Larson
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