Sir, - Kevin Myers does not believe that violence is a justified means to achieve one's goals. The French poet singer Georges Brassens illustrates the same opinion in his song Mourir pour des idees, some verses of which can be rendered into English as follows:
Ah, if only a few more massacres suffice
To sort it all out once and for all
With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads
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In Paradise we should all be by now!
But the wished for Golden Age is endlessly postponed
The gods remain so thirsty, they are unsatiable
Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death.
Let us die for ideas if we must, but let us not make haste. Please let us not make haste! - Yours, etc.,
French Tuition Network,
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Co. Dublin.