The Illogic of Genocide

Given the response of some people, the "midset of terrorism" that lead to the disaster may not be as alien as we might think.



The Illogic of Genocide
URL: http://talkingmoose.manilasites.com/discuss/msgReader$179?mode=day
By Bijan Parsia


     My memes tell me it's bad to kill women, children, and people who
     aren't in charge. Your memes tell you it's perfectly fine to go
     off and kill women, children, and people who aren't in charge...
     Yes, we're in a meme war. Tuesday's attack was an attack on our
     memes. Our beliefs. What we stand for.
     So, how will our memes fight back?
     #1, we must change their memes. How do we do that? I guess with
     two ways. First, we kill their women and children. Why? Well,
     these are future hosts of their memes. And, we must get their
     memes to understand that if we get attacked, we will make their
     other meme holders pay and pay big.
     
   Uh...
   
   Uhm...
   
   Putting aside the asinine "meme" talk, I'm just astonished that
   anyone could think to say that the first thing we should do in
   waging any kind of war (much less a "meme" war) is to kill, just
   murder, people not responsible in any way for the attacks. People,
   by definition, as innocent as those who died in the U.S. Our first
   act.
   
   The rest of this "[1]Talking Moose" article is...is...just
   despicable.
   
   Our leaders should be speaking out against this sort of attiude,
   diverting it, setting a tone that doesn't disgrace the memories of
   the victims.
   
   Instead, they seem bent on committing the very evil they so loudly
   condemn. Talk of genocide dishonors the memory of those innocents
   who were killed on Tuesday. It dishonors us all.
   
   And lest you think this an isolated, anonymous Internet
   self-publisher, check out Ann Coulter's [2]column:
   
     We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert
     them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and
     punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed
     German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
     
   We should not tolerate calls to genocide. It is so bizarre to have
   to say that.

References

   1. http://talkingmoose.manilasites.com/discuss/msgReader$179?mode=day
   2. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter1.asp


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