Re:Someone Just Leaked Obama's Rules for Assassinating Ameri...
by arrrg on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @02:10AM
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Yes, that is the ideological view exhibited here. A near perfect description of it, actually.
What you say is not, in any sense, the truth or self-evident or anything like that, it’s just one ideological view of many.
Re:Someone Just Leaked Obama's Rules for Assassinating Ameri...
by summerdown2 on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @02:43PM
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I feel there’s an excluded middle here. The state could perfectly reasonably consider it ok to take taxes, but not life. Or to take life in some circumstances (war), but not others (death penalty). Your argument appears to be that because something is a bit true, it has to be completely true. I don’t find this to be the case in practice. There are plenty of partly true things in life.
If the state feels it's appropriate to take from one and give to another, then it must also feel that it is appropriate to simply take and eventually, not to merely take property but life itself. It's the taking mindset and mentality that's the problem.