You're out of order, Dominic
_ I don't appear to have a terribly good strike-rate
when it comes to figuring out what he's trying to say_
you go from your failure, to me *trying to say something - so your apparently accurate description of your inability to understand a difference opinion with you, becomes *my failure to communicate
and IF you cannot figure out not just what I am saying but what I am *trying to say, then you are in NO position to know if the cartoon makes one of my points - or a plausible near relative, are you?
And the unfunny cartoon shows a very confused set of images which portray, I think, a comparison between terrorists who blow up civilians and usuk forces who blow up civilians
And then we get to the hilarious punch line "Just the same strand of thinking that drew a moral equivalence between the two "sides" in Srebrenica"
Now Srebrenica was a massacre in a different context
And who exactly were the people who drew a moral equivalence between the 2? It's all very vague, just as the point you claim to find in what I have said
Given that vagueness, it becomes unavoidable that you put me in that category of those who made that claim
That is to libel me personally
And you will apologise please
L
or Sarajevo.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:55 PM
Subject: Times cartoon
Making what I take to be one of Lawrence's points (or a plausible
near-relative - I don't appear to have a terribly good strike-rate
when it comes to figuring out what he's trying to say) in the recent
discussion for him:
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2005/07/12/equivalence.php
Some of what I might want to say in answer to that suggestion of moral
equivalence is said in the comments below; various counter-arguments
to that, of varying strength, are also provided. The debate seems to
be quite polarised; I doubt we should do better here than they seem to
be managing there, so don't propose to take it up for the time being.
Dominic
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"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas,
obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity.
With a little practice, writing can be an
intimidating and impenetrable fog!" - Calvin
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