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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (281301)	1/23/2015 3:56:00 PM
From: sense	of 281500

"I don't see why one history is more relevant than the other" because "Human beings are driven by emotions first and logic second" ? Presuming moral equivalence is valid... only because you've not bothered with properly parsing differences ? [ I don't see hypocrisy...] "It seems that many well educated Europeans do"... Which is why I labeled it "navel gazing"... and why it appears to me to be something that doesn't much matter, that's well worth not caring about... Again, you have people who are murdering others... and you have people drawing cartoons... and you CHOOSE to pretend that opting to express moral outrage over a cartoon you disagree with... must have equal weight in our judgment and our mindshare ? Ridiculous. "There is no shortage of bigotry. I don't see why we should approve of one set of bigots more than another set." Again, the CHOICE to pretend moral equivalence is valid where it is not... the choice to fail to make proper moral distinctions where that is required... IS a form of bigotry. If Jews and Arabs have a "cultural conflict" that leads Jews to draw cartoons... and Arabs to behead people... the fact they have a shared disagreement... isn't the point. ["semitic Jews in Europe haven't been killing westerners while trying to impose the Jewish religion on the locals]... pointing out that their situations are so different that posturing moral equivalence between them is insane... You say, "Nonsense! Their situations are so different on so many levels that you cannot make that kind of argument"... that their situations being different requires NOT considering them as the same. There's your nonsense...

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