The Logic Off Topic list

At 2:34 AM +1000 9/24/01, Spectro wrote:
>Firstly let me preface my potentially confrontational statements
>by saying that I was deeply disturbed by the attacks earlier this month.
>My heartfelt sympathies go out to all who were or are close to someone
>who lost their lives in this great tragedy.  I initially promised myself
>to stay out of this debate but the numerous posts I have read on the
>topic on this list have prompted me to do otherwise...




Rather than confrontational they are just kind of tactless and dumb 
since they mostly have absolutely nothing to with the motivations of 
the people who did the crime.  An awful lot of them really don't 
amount to too much more than you using the incident as a soap box for 
your own personal causes.  Like:

>Lets see: A nation that consumes resources at a rate such that if the whole
>world was doing it, things  would be completely unsustainable within
>a very short period of time.  And earlier this year, George W walked away
>from the Kyoto protocol on Greenhouse Emissions. What do you read from
>that?


I suggest you think about exactly how much sympathy the terrorists 
have won for their cause by this crime before you start claiming that 
it was carried out to further your causes.  This is particularly 
stupid in light of the fact that OPEC has always done it's best to 
*encourage* oil consumption.  Muslims don't mind people buying their 
oil at all.


>
>Exportation on a tremendous scale of largely vaccuous entertainment and
>'lifestyle choices' , which promote values many who are not similarly
>inclined see as selfish, unquestioning, frequently violent and irresponsible.

Although most American TV makes me want to blow up the TV station I 
generally just turn off the tube and read a book instead.   I guess 
other people have that choice too.
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