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2. But if you don't dehumanize your designated enemies

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 02:50 PM

Jan 2012

You run the risk of not killing them in a wholesale and heartless manner. As long as we call certain people very, very bad, we are allowed to kill them and anyone with the bad luck to be around them, and all our legal obligations can be lost in the red mist. This doesn't apply, of course, to anyone else, because they're not exceptional and freedom-loving like we are.

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Excellent. We need more of their wisdom.K & R freshwest Jan 2012 #3