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- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace, Countries' Alleged Non-Violence . . .
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.193858.22476@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:38:58 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec19192129@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >Admittedly I am making a generalization from the behavior of thousands
- >of organizations in the past advancing their causes by making martyrs
- >on whatever scale suits them. The practice of provoking violence
- >is so overwhelmingly common that it is more reasonable to demand
- >evidence that Greenpeace is not doing it.
-
- John is presumably content, therefore, with the claim that is is "more
- reasonable" to demand evidence that the government, the nuclear
- industry and the United Taxi Drivers of Bohemia, Illinois are involved
- in provoking violence.
-
- Given that he has given no evidence of Greenpeace's "making martyr on
- whatever scale suits them", his standard of judgement seems to make
- the above claim perfectly reasonable.
-
- -- paul
- --
- hybrid rather than pure; compromising rather than clean; | Militant Agnostic
- distorted rather than straightforward; ambiguous rather than| I Don't Know
- articulated; both-and rather than either-or; the difficult | and You Don't
- unity of inclusion rather than the easy unity of exclusion. | Know Either
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