There really is such a thing as mass hysteria and it feeds off itself.
When a poster uses HITLER or NAZI or even GOOD GERMAN against another's reply, they have already lost the debate; usually. This was NOT the case on the Terri threads.
Once these words were used by one and not called on by the rest, more and more people used them on others.
Then there was the escalating blame game and trashing of every single member of the Bush family and by extension, every member of the GOP,past,present,and future.
Each poster would ratchet it up a notch, feeding on the mass hysteria.
And then there were the really insane posts claiming that Terri was just like CHRIST, that she will be made a saint, and that people should pray TO ,not for her! Not to mention the vilifying Jeb and/or President Bush with Pilate parodies.
It was the madness of crowds and not a pretty sight.
This has NOTHING to do with anyone disagreeing with me,because YOU don't even know WHERE I stand on the Terri mess.
No, you're just continually whining about posters who disagree with YOU and those who refuse to take your guff.Which amounts to the same thing.
No, go back and try again.
nah, he just calls it as he sees it, and the ones he's calling on don't like that.
Very well stated!
That stuff continues. Personally, I find it ultra-weird.
Nam Vet
Blanket statements such as the above provide a poor basis for setting a premise, much less for establishing a conclusion.
There have been plenty of events over the past few dacades that can rightly be compared to the historical events and policies that led up to, and facilitated the atrocities that occurred during WW-II.
I have seen that quasi-argument on the internet many times, and it is invariably intended to silence the opposition rather than present a coherent counter-argument.
It is a fact that acts of government killing civilians in NAZI Germany started with small numbers of special cases and incrementally grew to several millions. It is a fact that the militarization of their police passed several warning thresholds before Germany was a full-blown police state. It is a fact that the government and society of Germany was incrementally transformed into its notorious state of tyranny through several critical events and subsequent procedures.
It is extremely foolish (and contrary to the evidence of recent years) to imagine that such evil intent no longer exists among human individuals and groups.
YES!
* CAPS used in the Freepmail I rec'd.