XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Don Homuth  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It was a collection of scrap metal before it crashed.   
      
   >   
   >>>> 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.   
      
   DID YOU OR DIDN'T YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG?   
      
   >   
      
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