Re: MD selective use of "terrorism"

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 13:52:40 BST

  • Next message: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com: "MD Ayn Rand's Objectivism."

    Dear Wim,

    > It is
    > not that difficult to distill from Platt's posts his answer to your
    > repeated question: "Why is killing 3000 civilians in NYC an act of terror,
    > while 10000 in Iraq is not". As he is -understandably- not inclined to
    > answer himself to someone not showing him much respect, I'll give his
    > answer as I understand it: Regardless of numbers, killing those Iraqis
    > defended Freedom, i.e. an intellectual pattern of value, against a
    > biological pattern of value that threatens Western society. Platt and me
    > have been disagreeing ever since 11 Sep 2001 about several aspects of this
    > answer, but he DOES have one. Did I understand you correctly, Platt?

    Correct. The number of Iraqis killed is wrong, but the principle is right.

    Best regards,
    Platt

    MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
    Mail Archives:
    Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
    Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
    MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net

    To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
    http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Jun 10 2004 - 13:51:37 BST