Tal,Oct 5 2004, 01:50 PM Wrote:Did you have to add this snide little comment in? Does it help your position in the debate to sling these little arrows at all? Or was this disdainful comment just a poorly masked troll-bait to get people up in arms? Debates are a means of discussing opposing viewpoints. Not an opportunity to play the put-down game.
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In fact, Yes.
Because honestly, it scares me out of my pants, that (when the war started) way more than a solid 2/3rd majority of the population of the most militarily powerful nation on the planet can be so easily convinced that it is right, justifiable and necessary to invade a foreign nation, killing TENS OF THOUSANDS of it's population and installing a new government - while about the same amount of said population don't even know enough solid facts about this country to locate it on a world map.
Scary. As. Hell.
That said nation actually HAS a huge arsenal of WMDs - quite contrary to the invaded country - doesn't exactly help my fears... :unsure:
With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince...
With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. ...
and still keep the frog you started with.