30-09-2009, 12:08 PM
Peter Presland Wrote:I haven't seen reference to this anywhere else yet - par for the course I guess - but the reported UK Foreign Office argument for rejecting the petition to arrest Erhud Barak for war crimes is interesting:Quote:..... the defense minister was a state guest, and therefore was not subject to such lawsuits.I wonder what argument would have been deployed had he NOT been a 'State guest' ?
The mind boggles. It seems to suggest that crimes - even terrible ones - don't count if you have made a decision to entertain the perpetrator.
Utterly ridiculous and culpable reasoning.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14