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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: William B. Kohn who wrote (25194)4/15/2002 12:45:16 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi William B. Kohn; Re: "So, Israel ought to condemed for Sabra and Shatilla ... On the other hand... SYRIA... 17000 deaths unaccounted for."

The principle here is "two wrongs don't make a right".

It's my belief that it was the Jews who taught this principle. Certainly this world was a more vicious place before there religion, along with the Christians and Moslems, came along.

Here's a good reference:

Description of Two Wrongs Make a Right
The Nizkor Project (dedicated to Holocaust victims)
Two Wrongs Make a Right is a fallacy in which a person "justifies" an action against a person by asserting that the person would do the same thing to him/her, when the action is not necessary to prevent B from doing X to A. This fallacy has the following pattern of "reasoning":

It is claimed that person B would do X to person A.
It is acceptable for person A to do X to person B (when A's doing X to B is not necessary to prevent B from doing X to A).
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because an action that is wrong is wrong even if another person would also do it.

It should be noted that it can be the case that it is not wrong for A to do X to B if X is done to prevent B from doing X to A or if X is done in justified retribution. For example, if Sally is running in the park and Biff tries to attack her, Sally would be justified in attacking Biff to defend herself. As another example, if country A is planning to invade country B in order to enslave the people, then country B would be justified in launching a pre-emptive strike to prevent the invasion.
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nizkor.org

-- Carl
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