I didn't see where he said they had the same amount. Usually when talking about human dignity we are talking about baseline standards beneath which we will not go. For example, even our most heinous criminals still get treated with basic human dignities in prison.
Osama is evil ; President Reagan is good.
Do you honestly think the poster cannot distinguish between the two? Without even knowing him I would wager a large sum of money on his being able to distinguish between Reagan (whom democrats believe was evil btw) and bin Laden.
For example, even our most heinous criminals still get treated with basic human dignities in prison.
That's nice to know--but in this case, it's the prison guards who maintain their dignity when they act like humans while dealing with the convicts--not the criminals while they rape or maim or murder people.
Do you honestly think the poster cannot distinguish between the two?
Last time I was in Germany on a business trip, the subject of Bill Clinton came up. To my surprise, the German guy said he liked Bubba and that he found him a lot more "menschlich" than President Bush because Bubba had had love affairs and Bush was "trying to play the sheriff." I was on the verge of crying out loud, "Of COURSE he's playing the 'sheriff'--that is his damn JOB!!"
While this does not amount to equating Osama with Reagan, I think it pretty much shows that in today's Germany, some people seem to believe that
menschlich = immoral