[funsec] Re: wow - is a "shadow" politician still a politician?

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:32:04 CDT, Brian Loe said:

> That would be the only argument you could win - but only if you
> considered it moral to lead those 2 million to their slaughter
> yourself, as in to a concentration camp, defenseless. Personally I
> find it equally as bad to disarm arm a person as it is to murder them
> yourself.

A *disarmed* person can at least theoretically re-arm themselves by getting
another weapon, and even in a war zone like Baghdad *still* has a 80% or 90%
chance of being alive a year later.  A *dead* person is usually pretty much out
of options and will *still* be 100% dead a year later.

Conflating the two merely indicates you don't understand the very real
distinction between them.
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