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To: zonder who wrote (68301)	3/6/2003 12:32:10 PM
From: chomolungma	Read Replies (1) of 70976

I am sorry if this offends you, but it is an analogy that a rising number of people are making. Aggression, power trip, police state, etc are among the points of comparison, I believe. The most useful course I took in school was a course in logic. The professor had us scour newspapers, TV and other media for arguments that contained "fallacies of logic." (This was before the rich source of the internet was available) Your post contains a number of statements we would "red flag." 1) "rising number of people" - meaningless, it's just like me saying "most everyone agrees that Chirac is an idiot." 2) "aggression, power trip.... - fails the test of degrees. Ed the jaywalker is the same as Edward the rapist since both break the law. 3) "police state" - slippery slope argument. Just like saying that smoking grass will lead to heroin addiction. 4) "police state" - appeal to emotion. Nobody wants to live in a police state obviously, so who would disagree with that? You'll have to come up with a better argument to convince me that America is on the same path as Hitler's Germany.

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