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Re: Some other perspectives on the tragedy
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Fri, 14 Sep 2001 03:42:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> > > And murdered many innocent Iraqis in the process. Sound familiar?
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> > That were being used as human shields
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> So that makes it OK to murder them?
Jeez, you're willing to go a long way for the sake of equivocation. If they
are being used as human shields, then the people using them as shields are
responsible for their deaths. So, no--it's not okay to murder them, and the
people using them as shields are the murderers.
> > and no, it doesn't sound familiar.
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> Weren't several thousand (est) innocent Americans just murdered for the • pursuit
> of a (as yet unknown) goal?
First of all, this is called argument from ignorance, as I'm sure you're
aware, and it states (falaciously) that because we do not know the reason for
X, we can assume that any reason for X is equally likely or valuable.
Second of all, you are yet again equating--incorrectly--the deliberate murder
of innocent civilians with the accidental death of civilians near military
targets. You are in effect saying that if I buy a baseball bat and drive cross
country and kill you with it, I am no more guilty of murder than if I
accidently knocked a flower pot off a roof and it landed on your head, killing
you. Do you live your life this way?
Dave!
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| (...) murder (...) cross (...) Not the same thing at all. Something closer would be if you buy a baseball bat...and kill me with it you are no more guilty than if you take that same bat and keep swinging it at a pile of baseballs when you know (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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