Mon. 10/04/05 21:52 EDT
.post #43
We are…those weren’t my words, but rather the title of a blog post, which I linked to.
Click on Fuck The Troops, and you can read both the blog post and the ensuing discussion.
No, what I said was …one example doesn’t prove the general case. One counter-example, on the other hand, can disprove it.
I try to choose my words carefully, but then you just misquote me. That’s not fair, and it’s not serious discussion.
Take some time and try to understand the important difference between a “point” and “the general case,” and please try to use as much care in quoting as I do in composing.
All I’m saying is that, insofar as soldiers kill innocent civilians and babies, those soldiers are murderers. How does the “Christmas truce of WWI” possibly “disprove” that? My statement is not a general theory, and not even a “point”; it’s a definition.
Any person who kills an innocent person is a murderer.
Nothing “gray” or “theoretical” about it.