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    Post Re: Death Penalty

    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
    Your first thread was specifically offensive. Boil down your post and it read:

    A is very bad. Even ancient society C moved past the use of A. If you still support A, you are no more "advanced" than a low-echelon member of society C. This clearly labels any supporter of A as low-echelon type. Indirect attack to any and all readers. Not permissable.

    Your US Government example boils down to:

    USG does evil act A. If you support USG, you are implicitly supporting A.

    There is no direct component of attack on the reader. You are besmirching the USG, but that does not constitute a personal attack, only a politically viscious comment. The key here is in the 2nd example you do not define a negative personal state for the reader, only suggest that they might want to rethink things in light of your argument. Different in tone entirely.
    By these standards the Republicans and Democrats couldn't argue with each other sincerely on public forums, simply because they would be compelled to say "please rethink your position dude" instead of saying X government (f.e. the Bush administration) committed insupportable crimes, and if you support them, you are claiming these crimes not to be crimes. Better yet, claiming that it is a crime would be a crime in itself! The same goes with positions in certain policies like gun control or capital punishment.... Nevermind.
    Last edited by PowerWizard; 04-13-2009 at 15:01.
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