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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probability-wise, you’re mad that Bin Laden even thought of murdering civilians in the first place. Bin Laden didn’t care because in his view, they’re virtually combatants i.e. valid targets for a struggle that you disagree with, to put it mildly.

I can say infants are virtually combatants, and it doesn't make it so. Why is his insane argument at all valid?

The intensity of the desired action (mere disrespect vs. murder) is very different, but its logic is the same from my perspective: I want to do X on Y because I don’t like that Y does Z.

... what

"I want to put murderers in jail because I don't like that murderers kill people"

is thus the same logic as

"I want to murder gay people because I don't like that gay people have sex with the same gender"

are you fucking shitting me right now

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

are you fucking shitting me right now

No. It's really the same logic. Otherwise, homophobia would not be even a thing anywhere in the world.