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To: infowarrior
Anyone who attempts to "rationalize" mass-murder is prima facie, irrational...

Not true. There are plenty of rational evil people. They only need to take one simple sentence to heart to unlock evil.

"The ends justify the means"

24 posted on 09/02/2008 11:29:34 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Strategery & Shardenfreude = Stratenshardenfreudery)
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To: Centurion2000
"The ends justify the means"

That statement is, in itself, irrational. You can *never* achieve a worthy end by unworthy means, and anyone who believes that they can, is, not to put too fine a point on it, irrational...

the infowarrior

33 posted on 09/03/2008 12:44:00 AM PDT by infowarrior (“Let the voters decide if Palin is laughable.”-Tublecane)
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To: Centurion2000; infowarrior
Anyone who attempts to “rationalize” mass-murder is prima facie, irrational...

Not true. There are plenty of rational evil people. They only need to take one simple sentence to heart to unlock evil.

“The ends justify the means”

Infowarrior has it right because that one simple sentence is not rational. Anyone who believes it is, is obviously irrational. The ends cannot be divorced from the means. One cannot create utopia by means of terror. It is impossible and therefore irrational to believe that it is possible.

Your supposedly rational evil people demonstrate their irrationality and their evil by believing that “the ends justify the means”.

50 posted on 09/03/2008 8:16:28 AM PDT by monday
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