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Russ
SubjectRe: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother (of
FromRuss
Date2002-04-15 17:40 (2002-04-15 17:40)
Message-ID<20020415114008.10062.00000877@mb-cu.aol.com>
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Morgil Blackhope (3h & 10m) > Russ

In article <3CBAEFE3.9060505@bondwine.ca>, Jay Random <jrandom@bondwine.ca> writes:

Jay Random
TradeSurplus wrote:

Israel's leadership is brutal and evil. The fact that it is elected doesn't make it less brutal or evil. The fact that still more brutal and evil leaderships exist in the region neither lessens nor excuses the evil of Israel's leadership. And drop the "moral equivalence" strawman. I'm not going to argue against figments of your imagination. Evil is not made less evil just by being in the presence of a greater evil. Saruman is evil. The fact that he is less evil than Sauron does not make him a good guy. Substitute "Israeli leadership" and "Arab leadership" for Saruman and Sauron respectively and you can see what I am actually arguing, rather than your own strawman.

If you recognize that the Palestinian leadership is more evil than Israel's, & thus presumably that their acts are more evil, why do you persist in taking their side against the Israelis?

Trade's Saruman/Sauron analogy is flawed. A better analogy might be Denethor/Sauron.

Russ

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