>i was one of the people chatting about the paintings but i meant it more in >the silly sense of a question raised: would you kill him if you could go >back? i wrote no, i'd buy his paintings and try to diminish the sociopath. >and meant it in a daft way. and i agree, they are appalling. only interested >as brief moment of silliness. > >silly is a very good word. there's that part in the movie "the last supper" where most of them decide if they could go back in time and meet a struggling hitler in the streets they would kill him. then they talk to some tv conservative nut and he tells them he wouldn't kill hitler, he'd sit down and try to talk to him, explain things to him. well, it seemed relevant a minute ago...