From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 14:33:37 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> Harvey, when the anti-war protestors, actors, comics line up against Son
> of George, and have never, ever, been heard saying a word against
> Saddam, or the Saudis, or Bin Ladin, what is a thoughtful person
> supposed to think? Its the same with the Europeans; they feel free to
> whine against the perfidies of the USA ( and this was true during Bubba
> Clinton's administration too!) but say nothing against Islamist
> tyranies, do nothing to push against Milosevic in Serbia, and always
> find Israel a proper target no matter what the Islamist or Baathist
> regimes did or said.
Ah, yes, the old punishment-of-nonpunishers trick.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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