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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Big and Blue   
    writes   
      
   >banana wrote:   
   >>   
   >> The 'objectivity' pose gets right up my nose...   
   >>   
   >> 2) 'ACCIDENT'?   
   >>   
   >> Has any *evidence* actually been published, to support the idea that the   
   >> explosions (heard as far away as France and the Netherlands!) resulted   
   >> from an 'accident'?   
   >   
   >   Since *you* are going on about objectivity, I'm not sure what the size   
   >of the explosions has to do with their cause   
      
   Good point.   
      
   Those wishing to carry out such an act might be thought more likely to   
   want a really big bang rather than a small one, and warnings of a   
   'specific' terror-attack threat were recently put out by State security   
   in the UK (which isn't getting mentioned much now), but I accept the   
   point that bigness doesn't 'prove' conscious agency.   
      
   Have you noticed how some news reports are going on about the weather in   
   the area? 'Ooh, it looks misty this morning, let's hope the oil terminal   
   doesn't explode and wake people up in Amsterdam!' said the head of   
   security to his deputy. Doesn't sound right, does it?   
      
   >(you wouldn't be trying to put   
   >some subjective tone in here would you?).   
      
   Hopefully my tone is always subjective. I'm a human being, not a robot.   
      
   >   As for objectivity, all I can see is   
   >   
   >> The police issued a statement saying that they are treating the incident as   
   an   
   >> accident as opposed to a terrorist attack.   
   >   
   >which means they have no evidence of what caused it, so are treating it as   
   >an accident.  Strikes me as reporting objectively.   
      
   Do you realise that you just said that the police said something,   
   therefore it must be true?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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