Re: Lost--Benjamin Linus: Action hero! ("The Shape Of Things To Come"

Joe wrote:

> On Apr 29, 4:31 pm, Gumby <gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>Dimensional Traveler wrote:
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>>>Gumby wrote:
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>>>>Joe wrote:
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>>>>>On Apr 27, 8:56 am, Gumby <gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>>Chris Schumacher wrote:
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>>>>>>>"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>>>>>>>news:WpKdncPydYMnD47VnZ2dnUVZ_oOnnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>P.S. "Oh, so you DO speak English."<Thud> Second best line of the
>>>>>>>>night.
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>>>>>>>The thing about that scene is that it makes us almost sympathesize
>>>>>>>with Ben, then we remember this is the same prick that helped ice
>>>>>>>the entire Dharma Initiative, and pulled the pin on the nerve gas
>>>>>>>grenade that killed his father.
>>
>>>>>>I'm beginning to think maybe Dharma was an Evil Group and we're
>>>>>>going to find out Ben is the Good Guy after all.
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>>>>>Regardless of whether Dharma was itself evil, Ben is evil, no matter
>>>>>how ggod he thinks he is.  There is not justification for many of the
>>>>>actions he has taken.
>>
>>>>I think there is.  If he is (or thinks he is) saving the world or
>>>>perhaps all of existence, his actions are warranted (the needs of the
>>>>many outweigh the needs of the few or the one).
>>
>>>I might buy that if there was _any_ evidence to support it.  If
anything,
>>>his unwillingness to even attempt to explain the stakes argues
otherwise.
>>
>>>>>Just as one of many examples, there is the
>>>>>whole Juliet belongs to him rant and deliberately putting Goodwin in
>>>>>a situation where he was likely to be killed.
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>>>>>He has been shown to be a narcissistic douche on many occasions.
>>
>>>>Have you ever changed your opinion about someone after learning more
>>>>of the facts?  I have.
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>>>If and when such facts about Ben come to light, I'll consider them.
>>
>>Oh, well, thank goodness!
>>
>>
>>>With
>>>the evidence given so far, he's "evil".
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>>IMO, with the evidence given so far, there is *at least* a question.
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> 
> What is the basis for your question?

Um, "the evidence so far," meaning facts witnessed throughout the series.