[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal

  • From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:11:51 -0800

Eric is arguing that he is better than terrorists only by degree: he's only a bit better than a terrorist. "We're not completely as bad as Saddam." Quite a collapse of position, no?

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 3:04 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal



Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 10:26:47 PM, Eric Yost wrote:


EY> All the other terrorists would go "Huh?" and do a double-take. EY> It'd be time to drug you and chain you inside a truck full of EY> explosives (with a remote detonation switch in case you chicken EY> out) and set you rolling toward the Green Zone and your 70 virgins.

They would?  You seem very sure of that.  More importantly, you here
counterpose *everybody in the US" (etc.) and "the terrorists".
Clearly if we take a group of terrorists and the US etc., we'll find
more people in the latter group who won't (imminently and under
current circumstances) commit an act of terror.

EY> The very fact that you are crying "beams and motes" makes us
EY> better than the terrorists.


Ditto


EY> And that's without even comparing the EY> various claims and counterclaims. Guantanamo versus 9/11; Abu EY> Ghraib versus routine beheading of journalists and innocent EY> workers, etc.

the US (etc.) are supposed to be better than everybody else, not just
than groups of known terrorists -- aren't they/we?  Is your claim, in
the end, that terrorists are worse than you in that they have
committed terrorist acts?  (Wow.)





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