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To: cuban leaf

” but then I find out that his pilot was just killed by an ME-109 and his wife was killed in a bombing in London - and the two countries are at war in which the place his just released his bombs on is the aggressor.”

I can help you out on some of this.
Nobody involved had just been killed or even shot at by an ME-109, the cops wife is I believe pregnant so I’ll take that to mean she’s still alive, I don’t know if she was in London or not, and there are no warring countries involved.

Good lord that was the most tortured excuse I’ve seen on FR about this yet and there have been some doozies lol.


129 posted on 04/09/2015 12:01:58 AM PDT by snarkybob
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To: snarkybob

Yes,it was a bit long winded. I use hyperbolic examples on purpose. And the purpose is to demonstrate that until we can wrap a context around what someone did, we cannot make judgements on it.

It’s the difference between first degree cold blooded murder and killing in self defense. And to the unknowing observer they can both look identical.

My long diatribe was a twist on an analogy I’ve used for decades: To a person unaware of current events, germans bombing london looked morally identical to British bombing Berlin.

You need full context to interpret the actions of others. And it’s best to hold off on making “strong” judgements until that context is forthcoming.


142 posted on 04/09/2015 4:46:58 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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