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Old 09-28-2009, 09:16 AM   #117 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dogzilla View Post
If you define the parameters of an argument narrowly enough you can win any argument.

So I guess if you specify that only someone who intentionally killed someone while committing a terrorist act between the hours of 9AM and 5PM from May 1 2009 thru Sept 1 2009 is a terrorist, you can exclude any liberal terrorists.

The reality is that there are both liberal and conservative terrorists, as well as some just plain old terrorists that want to cause a ruckus. All of them should be executed after they are convicted.
Well, better to be narrow than to paint with a brush the size of a billboard and make generalizations big enough to fill Yankee stadium.

I think intent is the most important thing in this specific threadjack. I do not put someone who burns down an unoccupied townhouse construction site to protest suburban sprawl in the same boat as someone who blows a truckload of ANFO in front of a federal building downtown to Stick It To The Man. To do such would be a great disservice to our justice system. Check your belly for a star, Sneetches. Let's be civilized... its often all we have left in the end.
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