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To: steelcurtain

I will explain it, didn't mean to get confusing. The expression goes something like, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, maybe it is a duck."

I was just saying that maybe you were a troll, not a duck. All you have to do is substitute "troll" for "duck."

I reserve "quack" usually for doctors like the ones who mis-read everything medical about Terri.

Now you know.

When are you going to post something constructive and supportive? I would much rather respond to true debates on issues than to have to respond to disruptive attacks on those who think killing Terri was wrong.


609 posted on 02/08/2006 12:27:32 PM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: 8mmMauser; steelcurtain
8mm, you need to realize that sc doesn't understand the way language is used. He didn't understand your earlier analogy. You should have known he wouldn't understand your "quacks like a duck" analogy.

I've been reading a very interesting book about doctors who were involved in the Nazi euthanasia programs. THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, by Robert J. Lifton.

Here's an interested excerpt from his description of his interview with a man only identified as Dr. R., who managed to get himself transferred without reprisals from the Nazis. This is Dr. Lifton, describing a portion of the interview.

For he still had inner questions about whether he could have left the program even earlier; and when asked what advice he would give to young doctors to prevent them from becoming vulnerable to that kind of project in the future, he immediately answered, “I would advise them to leave — not to stay in such programs!” Don't stay even for a minute, he seemed to be saying, lest you become part of the killing. And even more strongly: “Today I would rather let myself be shot than participate in such an action.”

Who really thinks the man wants to be shot? He is comparing a bad thing to a worse thing.

Steelcurtain, do you understand now? Or is it still going over your head?

614 posted on 02/08/2006 2:49:49 PM PST by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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