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To: ManyMoose who wrote (67168)	9/5/2004 10:29:57 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Is it logical to attack the dead body of a terrorist after he has murdered your children? My comment had nothing to do with the logic of the response. The context was the capacity to differentiate between a political murder and a non-political murder. It is illogical to insist that an axe-murder is conceptually the same as a terrorist murder. The net result may be the same. The response may even be the same. But logically they are still two different concepts and not recognizing that is an analytical shortfall. If you are being attacked by people throwing apples and oranges, the distinction between the two may be irrelevant but you cannot say that an apple is the same thing as an orange even as you swat back at both of them equally.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (67168)	9/5/2004 10:45:52 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 793964

<<<Unless your heart is made of stone or you are some kind of Vulcan, your logic and brain will cease to exist as they were forever the moment you learn somebody has murdered your children.>>> We are all outraged by what happened to the children in Russia, but what is the sense of turning that outrage into barbaric (even if we say it is less barbaric) behavior? No authority (civil or religious) that I know of condone individuals taking out revenge against wrong doing. It is not about being goody, goody. It is about what civilization has learned over the years.