Another one that hurts

I just thought of a great way of shutting him up. We could kill him.

Splendid. There's a whole lot of them right now going about Syria and Iraq committing war crimes. Should we wait until they feel a fit of remorse and turn themselves in to an international war crimes tribunal, or ...Hey, I just had this great idea.

It's good to see that some American values haven't changed.

The notion that we shouldn't would have some strange consequences. For example, you'll have seen the classic bit of libertarian nonsense explaining how taxation is theft, on the basis that it would be if an individual did it. To take another example, if I were to decide you'd done something bad and needed to be punished, so I locked you up, that would be kidnapping. But when a society does it, it's called "justice" ...Something to think about.

The enemy, and the reason.I knew for a fact that Saddam's Iraq didn't have any Secret Weapons Of Mass Destruction, and that it was a stupid pretext for a war that we shouldn't fight, and that this would destabilize the Middle East, and that this was a war crime because it was a mere excuse for a war.I also know for a fact that if we let ISIS get away with their shit then we're like the people who appeased the Nazis, or like how we let Pol Pot get away with killing 25% of Cambodians.

I'm not. Hooray! Job done. That was all you asked, according to you.

I obtained this information by reading their public statements about what they want. It's not "inside information". It's what they say in their public statements.

We don't behead people for being gay or for being Christian or for being the wrong kind of Muslim. Rape and slavery are not part of our ideology. We are not the monster. Even more if this is our fault, we cannot honorably lose. HONOR is not where we say: we fucked it up, so we must not lift a finger to put it right.

This may have been a smart sassy reply. Nonetheless, I have no idea why you wrote that. Maybe you were trying to make a joke and it misfired.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Then there is a good argument that they should stop. How does that make my clearly stated beliefs hypocritical?

What Straggler said.

Well, speak for yourself. Personally, I am against, what should I call it ... monstrositism?

Speak for yourself. I am not.I've talked about my own situation before on this thread, I don't like doing so, but apparently I have to do so to make the point whether I'm talking to conservatives or liberals. Today a woman fleeing domestic abuse is going to look at my house and see if she's OK taking refuge in our spare room. Goddammit, I am not "the monster".Dronestar, if you are actually "the monster", then stop being a fucking monster. Otherwise, shut the fuck up about chastising us about how "we" are "the monster'.

And your amateur attempt at psychoanalysis is wrong. 'Cos it turns out that I can read my mind, that you can't read my mind, and that you can barely read my posts.Is there anything else you'd like to be wrong about?

But if we do nothing, we are not sparing the innocent.