Thread: Why Terrorism Exists

From Universal Mind
The "three" are peace, prosperity, and justice. That is the blanket statement I have been talking about.

I'm puzzled.

By 'blanket statement,' I assume you meant 'generalization,' and if you called my statement a generalization, you must have been trying to make reference to an exception to the idea that war destroys peace, prosperity, and justice, an exception which I took to be self-defense.

If you were pointing out that you think an exception exists in which war creates peace, prosperity, and justice, it is akin to saying famine can ease hunger, that ignorance increases awareness, or that you can warm a drink by making it cold. They're opposite states, by definition. Only in the most absurdly cynical world-view does war accomplish peace, prosperity, and justice(which is exactly why such phrases can be found in 1984).

I don't think this is the exception you meant to point out, but if it's neither the former nor the latter, what is it?

On a side note, I found this quite amusing:

From Universal Mind
You know that ad hominem is a fallacy, right? Ad hominem is the use of personal insults without the use of relevant debate points. You are going to have to use real debate points to have a real debate.

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Originally Posted by Moonbeam View Post
ILet's see...what are all those many reasons you are always talking about that made us choose Iraq as the first place to liberate in our policy of spreading freedom to the masses of the world? Let's see, the first one was our ex-friend Saddam, the next one is...what was that again?

Exactly. You don't pay much attention to what I write, yet you are going nuttier and nuttier over it. I have only explained it to you about forty times. Make sure you know what I have said before you start chirping about it.