Friday, June 02, 2006

Logic, as it were.


Shorter Crazy-Assed Racist Bitch: "Children are sometimes used by the insurgents to attack our troops. Therefore, children should be killed."

I'm sure there's a logical fallacy in there somewhere ...
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

So what would you do if faced with a 9-year-old throwing grenades at you and your friends (assuming you were heavily armed)?

10:52 AM
The American Anthropologist said...

Jimbo,

If a child throws a grenade at you, you are justified to kill them.
If a roadside bomb goes off and you don't know who set it, then you can't kill all the children you can find.
Agree or disagree?

11:39 AM
CC said...

Dear AA:

Please do not employ logic in delicate situations like this. They're not used to it, and they frighten easily.

11:57 AM
Glyn (Zaphod) Evans said...

I would hate to even postulate a thought along the lines of a nine year old's parents being killed (either justly or not) by foreign invaders and how they may or may not react...

Of course, going around shooting civilians in *any* situation is unjustifiable, even by the loudest big mouths of the right.

1:32 PM
The American Anthropologist said...

CC:

As an anthropologist I am on a mission to understand this new breed of political animal.
I tried to speak slowly and calmly but alas, these creatures whole existence is centred on fear.
Maybe I need to be like Jane Goodall and live among the chimps?

4:48 PM

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