terratogen wrote:
] oaknet wrote:
]
] ] Good arithmetic, bad logic. The man was angry. Multiply his
] ] anger. (Oh right, that's not a number and you're a man so
] you
] ] can't cope with abstractions like that). That anger is that
] ] same anger that fed the 9/11 attacks. Small as his violence
] ] was, so too was 9/11. Horrifying as it was, 9/11 was more
] ] publicity stunt than carnage. Remember - more people died
] each
] ] MONTH in Iraq as a result of sanctions than died in 9/11.
] Cool
] ] or crazy - you choose. God bless America. It needs all the
] ] help it can get.
]
] You're right... If we multiply his anger... We get GODZILLA!
]
] Your analogy is both idiotic and poorly argued. There is a
] significant difference between terrorist networks and postal
] wacko's. Not being able to spot the difference might have
] something to do with your preference of "abstraction" over
] "concept." It's true... there are many horrors in this world.
] Blaming all of them on this asshole doesn't quite hold water.
] If your point was that "There's violence in society, and that
] is not cool." It would be easier to simply say such rather
] than climbing a moralistic and sexist ladder to stupidity.
] Also.. If that was your point, you should consider learning
] "sarcasm" in your repertoire of abstract notions. The tank
] was pretty cool, and the victims are mostly insurance
] companies. "What if" arguments on whether he could have been
] satan incarnate are in no way logical.

What an interesting set of non sequiturs! My point was simple - anger drives people to insane, appalling extremes - this man and his "tank", 9/11, Palestinian suicide bombers. But you call it "cool". How quaint.

The suicide tank, you say, was "pretty cool", despite the loss of life (yes, the life of the man who made it - or doesn't he "count"?) What age are you to think that his insane, suicidal stunt was anything more than a miserable example of anger let loose? Dead men are "cool"? What is your measure of human life - toy soldiers?

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