Comments on: Outstanding

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:46:32 +0000

I’ve always favoured the “Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” style of justice, that being, irritating assholes are fired out the nearest airlock.

By: Ian Scott

Ian Scott — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:09:37 +0000

Forget about this “standard Islamist” description… I’d like to dea with your “Western Values” of celebrating death.

Come lay on my couch.. oh.. and bring some money with you, as well

By: jay

jay — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:58:39 +0000

For some reason people commenting here seem unfamiliar with the standard Islamist description of assorted Western infidels as being “Crusaders and Jews”.

By: dirk

dirk — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:24:59 +0000

ahh…the numbers game the body count.so typical of a certain type of thinking,numbers of bodies implies or justifies what???thousand upon thousands,surly you jest
actual the madman and idiot is a rather minor player in Iraq,the vast majority of the “insurrgents” or what ever you chose to call them are Iraqi’s.
so your comment on the crusades means what????
but what about the thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqi’s killed by the Americans use of force and invasion.you know the “colleratal”
so its not the killing your against its the who does the killing you have a problem with.

By: Ian Scott

Ian Scott — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:42:19 +0000

That’s interesting Alan. A few of my relatives, while fighting a war, at least made attempts to save human life where possible. One of the reasons for POW camps.

Jay’s comparison of rabid dog is of course, a fallacious analogy.

I’m not suggesting for one moment that killing someone is never an option. I’d be the first one to use whatever force is necessary to protect myself or my loved ones, or my property, when there was an immediate threat.

However, I would not be celebrating the death. It would sadden me that it was necessary to have to use that force.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:19:24 +0000

Mine celebrated! When mom was about five, for instance, she and the whole family regularly went for picnics on nice summer days up behind the town on the Clyde in Scotland, watched the dogfights in the air above them and the shipwayrds up river and cheered everytime an Nazi fighter died in a ball of flame…because even a five year old understood Nazis were really really bad.

By: jay

jay — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:44:44 +0000

The Zarqawis of the world fall under the general category of rabid dog. One comes to the village and kills some kids and citizens. Someone shoots it. The village is better off. Much better off.

By: Ian Scott

Ian Scott — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:11:45 +0000

Yeah, Alan - I’ve got some relatives who did that as well. But they didn’t celebrate it, either.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:23:38 +0000

Killing warring murdering enemies is a core western value. Grandpa did it in WWI, Dad’s cousins did it in WWII - in fact, the family’s been up to it since the Vikings first landed.

By: Ian Scott

Ian Scott — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:12:34 +0000

Ok, that could be an interpretation, I guess. Let Jay clear that up for us.

But regardless, I still find it odd that he seems to find the death of someone as “outstanding.” Doesn’t seem to be any “western value” that I know of.