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To: Steve Van Doorn
Is that the type of normal we are referring to?

Liberals insist that dividing things into only two groups, good and evil, is over-simplistic. Nearly everything that is good has at least some bad quality, and nearly everything evil has at least some redeeming quality. Although their observations that good things have bad qualities and vice versa are correct, and they correctly judge that a model of the universe which divides things into such categories will be imperfect. They offer up as their alternative a more accurate model, in which everything is a gray. Adding distinct shades of gray to the model would make it more complicated and less accurate. Since the model in which everything is simply some undefined shade of gray is more accurate than one in which things are divided into good and evil, they believe it to be superior. What liberals fail to appreciate is that a model's usefulness is tied not only to its accuracy, but also to its specificity.

A model which predicts that an object will be at some particular place at some particular time might occasionally be wrong. A model which simply predicts that an object might or might not exist at some unspecified location will never be wrong. On the other hand, which is more useful, a sign which states "Buses stop here three minutes past the hour on weekdays between 9:00am and 5:59pm" but might fail to accurately predict the arrival time of buses that show up at 10:01am or 2:05pm, or a sign which states "Buses stop here whenever they arrive to pick up or drop off passengers."

Liberals fail to recognize that if something which is 95% evil and 5% good, will as long as it exists actively destroy things which are 95% good and 5% evil, the total destruction of the 95%-evil thing, including the 5% good within it, may end up destroying far less good than would the evil thing's continued existence. If one can contain the 95%-evil thing well enough to separate out the 5% of good within it while preventing it from doing any further harm, that might be even better, but allowing a 95% evil thing to go around destroying good things, for fear of accidentally harming the 5% good within it, is a recipe for allowing evil to prevail.

21 posted on 01/15/2012 1:34:56 PM PST by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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To: supercat

Splendid logic both here and in post #4. I hope you will post more often.


24 posted on 01/15/2012 2:04:39 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: supercat

then in an example a normal child in school is a well behaved child. it isn’t normal to miss behave.


31 posted on 01/15/2012 4:31:32 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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