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To: Lane3 who wrote (26790)1/28/2004 7:15:07 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793897
 
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." anonymous

Your insistence on a narrow focus combined with the
inappropraite use of negative & positive spin is the real
issue. You intentionally used a deceptively narrow focus &
inappropriate positive spin to attempt to give legitimacy
to dangerous self interests of those countries opposed to
the war, while you attacked the US appropriate self
interest with negative, deceptive spin.

Using your logic, one can narrow the focus & spin a case
for almost any illegitimate person, group, action or
activity. Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Arafat, Pol Pot, the
KKK, ET AL, all were acting in their own self interests.
By intentionally ignoring what those interests were, one
could cleverly spin a deceptive case to justify their
horrific deeds as well.

“People only see what they are prepared to see.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A half truth is a whole lie." Yiddish Proverb



To: Lane3 who wrote (26790)1/28/2004 8:20:13 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793897
 
Pursuit of self-interest isn't spinnable because it has no moral component beyond itself.

I further define it down to:

"All volitional beings pursue their own happiness."

That pursuit can be moral or immoral, depend on the action involved.


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