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Question: Who is worse?
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
Nathan
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« on: April 01, 2014, 10:31:30 AM »

Killing somebody for attempting to take a small to medium amount of money is so entirely and obviously disproportionate and unjust that only somebody whose worldviews comes from eighties action movies could genuinely consider it on every level okay. There are plenty of grey areas, Naso, and admitting this doesn't even mean that you have accept that actions are morally ambiguous. All it means is that you have to accept that people are, because people do both good and bad things throughout their lives. The difference between petty muggers and Hitler is so stark in degree as to amount to a difference in kind, and if you sincerely don't recognize or accept that then I fear for your ability to navigate any situation in life that can't be dealt with through intimidating or impressing people with shallow canards and macho posturing. If that's supposed to be what it means to 'be a man' then I'd rather be castrated.
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
Nathan
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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2014, 10:59:46 AM »

The difference between petty muggers and Hitler is so stark in degree as to amount to a difference in kind, and if you sincerely don't recognize or accept that then I fear for your ability to navigate any situation in life that can't be dealt with through intimidating or impressing people with shallow canards and macho posturing. If that's supposed to be what it means to 'be a man' then I'd rather be castrated.

You're missing my point.

Man walks down the street and is attacked by a guy. I feel sympathy for the man and want a harsh punishment for the attacker.

Man walks down the street to buy Meth and is attacked by the guy. The attacker still deserves harsh punishment, but the man dealing in drugs is no longer innocent, thus the sympathy is gone.

See?

No. I don't see. I can understand not liking the second man, but not having any sympathy for him makes it sound like you have a personality disorder. (It's also not the point that you appeared to have originally been trying to make.)
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