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