"I didn't impute that Bowser would do one damn thing or another on this issue"

Oh, come on Tom. Here is what was in out respective NT lines:

[claim that bowser would rationalize retarded-child bombs]

Davin: Oh, come on! as if he would!
Tom: Maybe...


You think your NOT imputing that he would? The piece in question was ONLY about strapping bombs to retarded children and walking them into crowds of people. what am I supposed to think, Tom!? that you really didn't mean to imply that he would rationalize such acts?

If you actually meant something else in this thread, then fine, I'll believe you, but don't jump down my throat for drawing an obvious conclusion consistenmt with this discussion.

"As for the rest, I'm getting fed up to here with not being able to field anything that approaches an abstract or analogous argument without people around here mentally falling on their face and knocking out a couple of teeth."

I'm fed up with people on the 'pro-war' side of the fence slinging massive piles of feces at anyone who dares disagree with them. God knows you have pumped out the personal insulting garbage as fast as anyone here, so forgive me if I am hasty to take your attempts at analogy involving likening anti-war folks to holocaust deniers as just another round of crap spewing and thinly veiled ad hominem.

""Exercise for the student" is a turn of phrase. Chill out."

Its also pedantic and easily taken as arrogation.

""Abstraction" means I am not speaking about a Holocaust-denier as a specific case. I'm speaking about the kind of thing a Holocaust-denier is doing, why he might be doing it, and how it affects his own moral status."

I see. Let me try this one on for size: "Abstractly speaking, People who take Tom Brosz's position are the same thing as Nazis and mass murderers, not that I think this applies to tom Brosz". Really a stark line between this and slinging muck at people you disagree with?

"The object of the post was to ask the general question: what leads someone to try and find excuses for evil? "

Given that I have a pricipaled, coherent, evidenced stance against this war, I could turn around and accuse you of the same behavior.

As for Michael Moore, don't have time to read the whole piece, will tonight.

Davin L.