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I'm not certain you do get it. You seem to follow each claim that you get it with something that is directly counter to it.
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Let's say that we get involved if the value is a "worth units (WU)". And let's say that the value of saving Syrians is equal to the value of saving Libyans, at b WU. The cost of saving Syrians is s WU, and the cost of saving Libyans is l WU. If b-s > a, we save Syrians. If b-l > a, we save Libyans. Libyans and Syrians are worth the same, but the circumstances can still result in different outcomes. Just because one thing is "worth it", and another isn't, doesn't mean that they have different worths, they could have different "its".
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We're talking about nations and their actions. If a foreign nation kills you, do you think the US would react? Probably, but not because they give a rat's ass about you, only because the US has been insulted. If the US kills you, would other nations do something about it? Not a chance, not just because they'd get their ass kicked, but because they don't care.
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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We have to go back, Kate!
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He wasn't offering it as an excuse. He was just demonstrating that the decision to intervene in Libya and not intervene in Syria does not mean that Syrian lives are worth more than Libyan lives, but that the 'cost', in whatever terms that is measured, of saving them is not equal.
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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That's a shame. It says "I'm not willing to concede my position no matter how right you are".
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Stop stalking me.
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Please, gentlemen.
A little adult restraint please? Are you sowing what you wish to reap? The golden rule applies equally in both directions.
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ORLY? I've been in this discussion for quite some time - He comes in at the end, avoids the topic and comments on my post ... Spare me.
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I don't know how you read my remark, but I meant it in this way. The golden rule, treat others as you'd like to be treated. If you treat others with disdain, you are asking to be disrespected. Of course, it works in a *positive* direction, too.
Naturally, the other interpretation of "both directions" meaning applying to both parties equally is also valid.
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The conversation was clearly exhausted in post #110.
DH wants to stir shit up with nothing to offer on the topic and then the "stalk shit starts. . .followed with "humor"... too predictable. Spare me... BigV your intentions may be in the right place, but this ones not mine.
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77 children killed in Syria unrest
Amnesty International reveals to Channel 4 News that it has the names of 77 children killed in the recent violence, plus reports of a third child tortured to death.
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