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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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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