(June 24, 2012 at 1:24 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: On a side note - Who else is fucking sick and tired of 'straw man' being invoked? Or people calling "straw man!" because one or more parties were being vague? I know I am.
If you're sick and tired of invoking it then stop making the fallacious argument.
(June 24, 2012 at 1:31 pm)Shell B Wrote:(June 24, 2012 at 7:17 am)Napoleon Wrote: But justifying murder, is in my opinion no way a moral high ground, which you seem to be trying to sit on.
No one is justifying a murder. The man did not commit murder. Killing someone accidentally without any other mitigating factor that would make you responsible despite lack of intent is not murder. The man did nothing wrong.
Well I would beg to differ with your first sentence.
As for the rest, yes I would agree with you. But that wasn't what I was responding to in my original response.
