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Old 07-20-2007, 04:08 AM   #21
Taliesin
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Re: A President's Thought

John

Before i go of on my hols

- I know how hard you are working to misunderstand what I say. So let's try it another way. (Given your confessed inablity to understand that two wrongs don't make a right)

The argument that what 'we' do is not as bad as what 'they' do therefore it is justifed - is relativism (we are right because in comparison to someone else we don't do quite such terrible things is a relativist argument)

Try and take a few minutes or hours to grasp that fact.

Now if you're ready move onto the second point. There is right and there is wrong. To say two actions are wrong is NOT the same as saying they are equal. For example

It is wrong to attack someone for no apparant reason with a baseball bat causing them serious injury, say broken ribs.

It is also wrong to shoot them in the head killing them.

The perpertrators of both those actions are criminals in the same way that using your power to kill and torture people for your own political ends is terrorism. GWB & OBL are both terrorists under this definition, in the same way that they guy with the baseball bat and they guy with the gun are both criminals.

So let me conclude with the same pojnt i made at post 12

"even if what we do isn't as bad as what they do - it's still wrong"
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