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From: "Edward Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Thanks for your thoughtful response, however.
>
> No problem. Nevertheless, I found the idea of leaving the impression that
> I was in favor of some kind of holocaust quite unsettling even if there
> have
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Joshua:
Let this be my "straw
man," then.
Fair enough :-)
But, Edward, as long
as you rail against social movements as straw men
without qualification. . .
Beg pardon, but I nearly always provide qualification (often in the form
of open apology). It usually comes later in soug
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Let this be my "straw man," then.
But, Edward, as long as you rail against social movements as straw men
without qualification (and you do realize that you have your own opinions),
then not all of it is devil's advocate. You do have your own reasons for
posting, not all of them e
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Joshua:
> I'm sure you hate the
people who killed
>Daniel Pearl because of ... well ... those same people tore down the
Twin
>Towers. Right?
<<--
Approximately: the emotion is more like repulsion, or the rudiments
of
hatred. But yes, "the same people," while being a
strictly ar
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From: "Edward Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Joshua:
> > >Interestingly enough, Daniel Pearl's wife said that he was sympathetic
to
> > >the Palestinean people and was concerned about the marginalization of
> > >Muslims.
> >
> > Interestingly enough,
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From: "Joshua Tinnin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] "Nuking a billion people"
it's better to lose one billion than six or seven billion.
&
Joshua:
> >Interestingly enough,
Daniel Pearl's wife said that he was sympathetic to
> >the Palestinean people and was concerned about the
marginalization of
> >Muslims.
>
> Interestingly enough, so was I until about seven months ago.
Strange how
> my "turn" came about.
Yes, based upon visceral
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From: "Edward Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Joshua:
>
> > > I'm not sure how you know he was "tortured for hours"...were you
there? Or
> > > are you taking this on faith? And frankly what he was saying near the
end
> > > rings quite true and is the f
Joshua:
> I'm not sure how you know he
was "tortured for hours"...were you there? Or
> are you taking this on faith? And frankly what he was saying near
the end
> rings quite true and is the feelings of the majority of the world
and many
> Americans of all ends of the political spectrum, possibly
