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To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson

I am very upset at the use of the terrified VietNamese children in this post.


16 posted on 08/16/2006 2:09:35 AM PDT by paulat
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To: paulat
Your being upset in itself does not impose a moral obligation on anyone.

Your opinion that something is "inappropriate" is your opinion. However, "inappropriate" is a weasel word. In complaining to the moderators it seems that what you MEAN to say is that you think it is WRONG. If that's what you think, why don't you say so?

"Inappropriate" is too vague a word to discuss. Your being upset is as indisputable as it is irrelevant and incompetent to show any thing. Your being upset MIGHT be because there's something wrong with you -- like an affective disorder. (I'm not saying that's the case, I'm just mentioning this to give an example of how your being upset is a morally neutral fact.)

You are retreating to an argumentative tactic beloved of liberals: You claim emotional distress and expect somebody else to do something ab out it; you call something inappropriate as though "appropriateness" were a mystical and undefined virtue, and expect on those grounds that others change their behavior to suit your desires.

That is morally wrong.

42 posted on 08/16/2006 4:27:52 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Reality is not optional.)
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