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Permalink Reply by Arcus on May 15, 2011 at 9:12pm

I *know*. How could I ever have managed to get my extensive knowledge between these two time consuming activitites? Good thing I had some midnight suns to read by. :)

 

 

Permalink Reply by Reggie on May 15, 2011 at 9:20pm

Reading Brady Games doesn't count! ;)

Permalink Reply by Dan on May 10, 2011 at 6:54pm

Maybe a ticking time-bomb situation would allow for some passion, anger, and maybe violence against the perpetrator. Bin Laden though? He was sitting comfy in Pakistan for 6 years. Waterboarding didn't "get us" bin Laden, and even if it contributed to our intelligence, so what? Torturing one man allowed us to assassinate another? That's not justice. I'm tired of hearing people say bin Laden was "brought to justice" or "captured and killed." No, he was assassinated by a covert team who will remain anonymous. It may be war, but this was a revenge/assassination, it was not justice under any kind of modern justice system. No wrongs were righted, no penance or restitution was made. A man was killed 10 years after he convinced a bunch of other guys to be mass-murdering suicidal sociopaths. He led a decent-sized group whose tactics we cannot stand. And yet, here we are bombing Libya, still in Iraq and Afghanistan, a decade and thousands of civilian casualties later. I can't stand anyone's violent tactics; they have failed to make the world a safer place, they have failed at any national security goals, hurt our economy, and have weakened our bonds with our allies.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on May 10, 2011 at 7:11pm

Very soundly stated - now prepare for the proponents of water-boarding, driven by their blood lust, to swoop in and call you a liberal, or something even 'worse'.

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on May 11, 2011 at 10:58am

blood lust? I would think in contrast favoring the preference of the murders of thousands of people or a terrorist such as Bin Laden to be free instead of torturing an Al Qaeda terrorist is itself clearly "blood-lust".

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on May 11, 2011 at 2:54pm

Prove to me that torture saved thousands of lives - you have no evidence, only and unfounded opinion, which is wrong.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on May 15, 2011 at 8:31pm

He won't because he can't.  He would make a good pundit, though.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on May 15, 2011 at 9:07pm

Thank GOD noone have to rationally concider any torture arguments anymore, they are aaaaaaaaallll solved by some random person on the intertubez who spotted a brand new fallacy that was lost for millenia despite intensive search by legal scholars and philosophers! :)

Btw, is that a peace or literature Nobel prize?

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on May 15, 2011 at 9:11pm

OMG! Sarcasm SOOOOO wins any argument online! Screeeeeeeech! Do you want the Emmy or an OSCARRRRRR!

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on May 15, 2011 at 9:15pm

I want EGOT!

But I thought self-aggrandizing was the debate winner..?

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on May 15, 2011 at 9:19pm

I'M OMNIPOTENT!  #WINNING!

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on May 15, 2011 at 9:33pm

Omnipotence>Impotence

A well deserved, though dry, victory for you, Sir :)

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