On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Philip Hart wrote: >On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > >> [...] while ambition itself is not >> necessarily evil, it is all too often associated with ruthlessness, >> and ruthlessness is but a hairbreadth of conscience from being >> active cruelty, which is, I think, unambiguously evil. > >By such chains of reasoning I think you could reach any conclusion >about anything. > Well, I have occasionally been accused of being clever. But I promise not to try to sell you shares in a mustard mine.