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To: Lane3 who wrote (1796)	7/19/2005 11:20:17 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541986

If it's a subset, it is the same thing. If my arm is a part of my body, I don't know how it would not be "helpful" to acknowledge that my arm is part of me (I would never argue that I am my arm, but I would argue that my arms is part of me- hence A is not B, because the whole is more than one part, but B is a part of A). Seems to me that "conflating" isn't really a word that applies here. If B (terrorism) is a subset of A (political protest) then they are already conflated, naturally. Being a subset of something inherently fuses you with the thing you are a subset of- there's no bringing together, because the thing was already together to begin with. No one argued (at least not that I saw) that terrorism is anything other than a small subset of political protest, but you seemed to be arguing that it wasn't political protest at all. Would you agree that it is, in some cases, a small subset of political protest?