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As fair-minded and non-partisan as Torquemada.Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:16:20 +0000hourly1By: Timbeaux
http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/12/twot-again/#comment-1759
Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:54:00 +0000http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=674#comment-1759No you try again. You made the rather baseless insinuation. I’m merely pointing out that it’s baseless and removed from reality.
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http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/12/twot-again/#comment-1758
Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:30:00 +0000http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=674#comment-1758Read the second clause of the sentence and try again.
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http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/12/twot-again/#comment-1754
Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:22:00 +0000http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=674#comment-1754Total war? Who’s in a total war? Are you really so brainwashed as that? Ask the Japanese if it’s fair to compare Iraq to a "total war". I feel certain they would be insulted.
“How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing!” —- Neville Chamberlain (1938)
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http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/12/twot-again/#comment-1753
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:03:00 +0000http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=674#comment-1753Plus #6, people who actually enjoy the idea of total war, without having to put up with the inconvenience of actually being involved in one.
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http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/12/twot-again/#comment-1750
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:05:00 +0000http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=674#comment-1750There’s #4, too: people who are blinded by fear and consequently overestimate the gravity of the threat. You could also add #5, people who assign an idiosyncratic weighting of the importance of tail risks (specifically, improbable but very damaging events); such people may be acting rationally but under a wierd utility, to (attempt) to emulate how an economist would put it….
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