From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> > Pretty interesting stuff.  I guess we Americans don't have to start
> quaking
> > in our boots any time soon about Adam's vaunted EU juggernaught.
> LMAO!!!!
>
> This statistic is very surprising to me: "Fewer than a fifth of
> Britons say they would be willing to die for their
> beliefs, compared with 71 per cent of Americans."

I'm not British, but I have a possible explanation as for myself at least:
Beliefs schmeliefs, I mean, what the hell, I'll "believe"
anything to stay alive. Hello, I'll believe something else tomorrow, after
whatever threatens me is gone. I think it's just too vague of an idea to
die for "beliefs", and I also think that the 71 percent of
Americans who say they'd die for their beliefs have not really thought
about what it means.

Dying for your beliefs makes you a dead believer - what good is that?


Antti Kurenniemi

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