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Comments on: Chavez and land reform http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/04/chavez-and-land-reform/ As fair-minded and non-partisan as Torquemada. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: a http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/04/chavez-and-land-reform/#comment-3031 Tue, 12 Apr 2005 05:24:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=959#comment-3031 a

]]> By: Squander Two http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/04/chavez-and-land-reform/#comment-3013 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:58:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=959#comment-3013 Obviously true, yes. Howevere, it was more your implication that situation two isn’t really a problem worth getting upset about that I was objecting to.

]]> By: john b http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/04/chavez-and-land-reform/#comment-3009 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:06:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=959#comment-3009 Situation one: I torture you.
Situation two: I give you a choice of going away or being tortured.

Both are bad, and both imply that I’m a bad man. It would be difficult to claim with any plausibility that situation two is as bad as situation one, however.

]]> By: Squander Two http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/04/chavez-and-land-reform/#comment-3008 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:04:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=959#comment-3008 > foreigners who stole it in the first place

No, foreigners whose ancestors stole it in the first place. Do you think we should prosecute the children or grandchildren of thieves, regardless of whether they commit crimes?

> The reason he’s one of the worse men alive is because of the appalling suffering he’s inflicted on vast numbers of poor Zimbabweans, who don’t have the same opportunity to flee.

So inflicting suffering on people who do have the opportunity to flee is not so bad, then? That’s good to know.

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