Re: (WAR/IRAQ) Emotional Reactions

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 13:29:19 MST

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    Emotional reactions, indeed.

    On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:07:35 -0500, matus <matus@snet.net> wrote:

    > "You can argue all you want that it could have been much worse, but
    > ensuring
    > a large number of survivors who have been grossly damaged by you is going
    > to
    > make you LOTS of enemies."
    > AND
    > "People that you kill aren't going to hurt you."
    >
    > So you would basically prefer that the US just outright Nuke baghdad, and
    > therefore just kill people they would otherwise just make angry?

    I think you're blinded somehow (emotion?) from understanding what he's
    saying here. Consider the immediately-below thing you also quoted.

    > "I consider this war to be immoral from the start, but I also consider
    > that
    > it's being conducted in a way that is almost designed to create a large
    > number of bitter enemies."

    A fairly plain reading of these two texts suggests that matus is describing
    consequences, *not* expressing a preference. Can you not see this?



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