The Evil of Terrorism

[HexHammer]

What time period is that averaging data for?

I'm just wondering how it can only be two per year when it was almost 3,000 just on one day in 2001, there were just 49 on one day a couple months ago, etc.

For once I must fully agree with the bird.

[Terrapin Station]

The intention is not relevant, as I can trust you can see here.

It's relevant for the people who are more concerned with others who might intend to hurt them than they are with accidents.

Why do you think that?

I'm not sure how to answer that because it seems so obvious to me. If that's what they're more concerned with, what they're focused on, then it's relevant to their concerns. I don't know how we'd dispute that.

[Terrapin Station]

By far the greatest number of 'terrorist' attacks in the US are committed by KKKristians.

Do you have any numbers on that?

Very difficult to find a site that isn't biased and agenda-driven, but it's obvious anyway. Just think about all the attacks on abortion clinics. Not that I would defend islam. It's a revolting ideology, but facts are facts. And then of course there is the fact that the entire US military is just a bunch of terrorists (mostly kristian).

You're thinking that Christians are akin to the KKK, though?

[vegetariantaxidermy]

You're thinking that Christians are akin to the KKK, though?

Well they certainly arent' christians, because the word implies that they follow the teachings of the NT character 'Christ'. In fact, the KKK are themselves KKKristians. Do you have a problem with that? After all, it's all 'relative'.

[Terrapin Station]

You're thinking that Christians are akin to the KKK, though?

Well they certainly arent' christians, because the word implies that they follow the teachings of the NT character 'Christ'. In fact, the KKK are themselves KKKristians. Do you have a problem with that? After all, it's all 'relative'.

Okay, but the not-really-Christians that you're referring to who aren't actually in the KKK. You're just assuming they have racist views?

[vegetariantaxidermy]

You're thinking that Christians are akin to the KKK, though?

Well they certainly arent' christians, because the word implies that they follow the teachings of the NT character 'Christ'. In fact, the KKK are themselves KKKristians. Do you have a problem with that? After all, it's all 'relative'.

Okay, but the not-really-Christians that you're referring to who aren't actually in the KKK. You're just assuming they have racist views?

Not exactly an assumption. There's plenty of evidence to support it.

[Terrapin Station]

Well they certainly arent' christians, because the word implies that they follow the teachings of the NT character 'Christ'. In fact, the KKK are themselves KKKristians. Do you have a problem with that? After all, it's all 'relative'.

Okay, but the not-really-Christians that you're referring to who aren't actually in the KKK. You're just assuming they have racist views?

Not exactly an assumption. There's plenty of evidence to support it.

Such as?

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Okay, but the not-really-Christians that you're referring to who aren't actually in the KKK. You're just assuming they have racist views?

Not exactly an assumption. There's plenty of evidence to support it.

Such as?

What's evidence to a 'relativist'?

[vegetariantaxidermy]

You're thinking that Christians are akin to the KKK, though?

Do you have to have everything spelt out? No, I don't think christians are akin to the KKK. I think kristians are.

[Hobbes' Choice]

It's relevant for the people who are more concerned with others who might intend to hurt them than they are with accidents.

Why do you think that?

I'm not sure how to answer that because it seems so obvious to me. If that's what they're more concerned with, what they're focused on, then it's relevant to their concerns. I don't know how we'd dispute that.

Step One: there is a difference between whether it is relevant, or that they think it is relevant.

Step Two: to what degree is their assessment of their risk nothing to do with actual likelihood, or due to a gut reaction fed by the media and the industrial/military complex?

[Hobbes' Choice]

Do you have any numbers on that?

Very difficult to find a site that isn't biased and agenda-driven, but it's obvious anyway. Just think about all the attacks on abortion clinics. Not that I would defend islam. It's a revolting ideology, but facts are facts. And then of course there is the fact that the entire US military is just a bunch of terrorists (mostly kristian).

You're thinking that Christians are akin to the KKK, though?

In exactly the same why that Islam is akin to Islamic terrorists.

[Terrapin Station]

Not exactly an assumption. There's plenty of evidence to support it.

Such as?

What's evidence to a 'relativist'?

For this scenario, one example of evidence would be one of the people you're referring to saying something racist--maybe online somplace that they were active, or in an interview with someone, or whatever.

[Terrapin Station]

Step One: there is a difference between whether it is relevant, or that they think it is relevant.

I didn't say that something is relevant because someone thinks it's relevant. I said that if S is concerned with x, then x is relevant to S's concerns. That doesn't in any way hinge on S thinking that x is relevant.

Step Two: to what degree is their assessment of their risk nothing to do with actual likelihood, or due to a gut reaction fed by the media and the industrial/military complex?

What does that have to do with the distinction between intention and accident or whether something is relevant to their concerns?

[Terrapin Station]

Very difficult to find a site that isn't biased and agenda-driven, but it's obvious anyway. Just think about all the attacks on abortion clinics. Not that I would defend islam. It's a revolting ideology, but facts are facts. And then of course there is the fact that the entire US military is just a bunch of terrorists (mostly kristian).

You're thinking that Christians are akin to the KKK, though?

In exactly the same why that Islam is akin to Islamic terrorists.

Now if we could just get vegetariantaxidermy to realize that.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Now if we could just get vegetariantaxidermy to realize that.

You clearly have reading comprehension problems.