From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 23:43:10 BST
On 1 Jun 2004 at 21:13, David Robjant wrote:
Chomsky is right in that. Platt Holden is right in that, atleast
from what we know so far, the actions of American soldiers in this
instance were not quite on the level of the Nazi Holocaust, Communist
Gulags, Baath party etc
...
What Platt is after is the rather different goal of resisting the
Chomsky analysis in which uncle sam is *just as bad as* the other
guys. I'd go along with him here. Refusing to acknowledge
differences between greater and lesser sins is no way to go about
reducing sin.
msh says:
I'm afraid you too misunderstand the point of Chomsky's message. He's
merely illuminating the flaw in a very common argument. He's saying
that no immoral behavior can be justified by claiming that it's not
as bad as someone else's behavior. Period.
You will not find anywhere in Chomsky a refusal to recognize lesser
and greater sins. Just a refusal to justify one in terms of the
other.
Now, it's just a fact that in war, or any other psychopathic
environment, psychopathic behavior emerges on ALL sides. People in
every country need to get past the idea that THEIR country is somehow
excluded from this.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Mark Steven Heyman
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