Re: Republican voters will soon be rounded up

From: Bradley1234 (someone_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:18:36 GMT

"David Grant" <NO_SPAM_PLEASE_jmd_2003@msn.com> wrote in message
news:KwCJd.136$iD1.21@read1.cgocable.net...
>
> > For terrorists to attack the USA like on 911, thats somehow okay in your
> > book? Is there nothing you would ever do to defend the USA? all war is
> bad?
>
> 9/11 was in no way good. I doubt many people are actually arguing that.
But
> consider below:
>
> Being that this is an electronics newsgroup I'm assuming familiarity with
> the log scale.
>
> Let's define a first magnitude disaster as something that kills half the
> world's population (~3 mil). The return of the Black Death, or a nuclear
war
> could achieve this. Divide by 10 and a second magnitude disaster would be
> something like AIDS (potentially), or a third world war without nuclear
> warfare. Third magnitude disasters would be WWI, WWII, and the Spanish
> influenza breakout of 1918. Fourth magnitude would be the Vietnam war and
> the slaughter in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Another division by
ten,
> Fifth magnitude disasters would be the Yugoslavian war in the 90s, or the
> number of deaths due to famine each year in Ethiopia. Sixth magnitude
would
> be the Israeli-Arab war of 1967. 9/11 was a seventh order disaster by this
> scale. More people die per month by gunshot wounds in the US than died in
> 9/11. Terrorism is simply an over-hyped threat, and is not a concern
worthy
> of very much attention. There are much more pressing issues we should be
> spending our time on.
>

Thats a very abstract way of looking at it. In the scheme of causuality of
death, it doesnt rank that high. Even given the number of deaths per year.
However when we examine human events, we must include the reality aspect.
To suggest terrorism is not a threat based on these data, may be
statistically correct, however the reality factor is not being considered.
If you actually believe what you said there, I submit to you that you have,
fortunately, lived a very sheltered life. Have, fortunately, never been
beaten up or robbed by force; never had your property stolen or destroyed.
And you probably have not been in the military.

The reason war is good, and terrorism is bad, is that your freedom has been
challenged, assuming you are an American (its a big usenet). People have
set as their goal, an agenda to take away your freedom and to force you to
convert to a specific religion and worship it, or die. Brave young
American soldiers are dying every day to protect the United States. They
have dreams, feelings, they want to live, to raise a family and have
friends. Yet they sacrafice their lives so we can live in freedom. To
dismiss their sacrafice in an apathetic way? This is among the most
dishonorable things a person can do.

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