About 5yr. log retention

Tom Vogt tom at ricardo.de
Thu Dec 21 06:20:54 PST 2000


"James A. Donald" wrote:
>  > your problem is still circular reasoning. the arabs who say that the
>  > US s evil are wrong because they are evil, and they are evil because
>  > you say so (or because your definition says so, which is pretty much
>  > the same). your problem is that it works perfectly well the other
>  > way around: james who says that the nazis are evil is wrong because
>  > he is himself evil,
> 
> No it does not work the other way around.
> 
> Normal people killing nazis and commies is not equivalent to nazis and
> commies killing normal people, for normal people are a threat only to evil
> people, whereas nazis and commies are a threat to everyone, including their
> fellow nazis and commies

james, this is EXACTLY what I'm getting at. your line works perfectly,
provided that the fact that the nazis are either evil or wrong is
already established beforehand.

see:

...for nazis are a threat only to evil people, while jews are a threat
to everyone, including their own race.

could almost be straight from Mein Kampf.

(duh, do I have to add a disclaimer here that I don't mean this, but
simply use it as an example of how these fuckers might argue/have
argued?)




> The jews really were not making war on western europe, germany, and the
> aryan race.  The nazis really were making war on western europe and the jews.

I agree completely. I just don't claim that my reality tunnel is valid
for everyone else.





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