XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, or.politics   
   From: dhomuth1@comcast.net   
      
   On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:55:10 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
    wrote:   
      
   >Don Homuth  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:48:28 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Don Homuth  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>>> Sometimes when you get on your Moral High Horse, you're more   
   >>>> entertaining than usual, Dosser.   
   >>>   
   >>>And I'm right.   
   >>   
   >> As you so oftimes declare yourself to be.   
   >   
   >I am right. You care more about a collection of scrap metal.   
      
   Nope.  I cared about the plane, when it was still intact.  The scrap   
   metal is just now so much junk.   
      
   >>> I doubt you'd have had any   
   >>>objections to firing into a crowd if ordered.   
   >>   
   >> What's the crowd doing?  What is the threat assessment?   
   >>   
   >Nothing that you know, but your superiors say it's OK.   
      
   Hardly the case.  If I'm firing at a crowd that, for example, coming   
   to lynch you and your family, I'm at the shooting end of the firearms   
   involved.  I'd just plain Have to know what the crowd is up to, yes?   
      
   You, otoh, would make the Fine Moral Distinction, preformed, that   
   since shooting into a crowd is Always morally objectionable, letting   
   the crowd lynch you and your family would be Just Fine with you.   
      
   See how that works?   
      
   Circumstances differ, and the ways in which they differ alter the   
   decisions to be taken.  Firing into a crowd is Not always morally   
   objectionable.  Nor, under some circumstances, would even such a   
   Morally Upstanding person as your own glorious self find it so.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)