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**The Saucepan Man** · 01-27-2005, 02:06 PM

The excerpt from Letter #183 which Kuruharan quotes simply says that, had the West bred or hired Orcs to do their dirty work, their Cause would have remained right. It does not follow that their chosen means of pursuing that Cause would have been right.

01-27-2005, 02:06 PM	#3
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	The excerpt from Letter #183 which Kuruharan quotes simply says that, had the West bred or hired Orcs to do their dirty work, their Cause would have remained right. It does not follow that their chosen means of pursuing that Cause would have been right. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!