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2. Mass slaughter is never, ever, justified, it's kind of built into the word "slaughter".

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 04:22 PM

Jan 2015

Except in the case of food or a competitive sporting event, I suppose.

noun
1.
the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
2.
the brutal or violent killing of a person.
3.
the killing of great numbers of people or animals indiscriminately; carnage:
the slaughter of war.

verb (used with object)
4.
to kill or butcher (animals), especially for food.
5.
to kill in a brutal or violent manner.
6.
to slay in great numbers; massacre.
7.
Informal. to defeat thoroughly; trounce:
They slaughtered our team.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slaughter

There were no winners in this slaughter and in the aftermath, which is still under way with RW hate radio, etc.

I see victims, and sadness, and little more.

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But nothing. [View all] Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 OP

Qualifying it how? HappyMe Jan 2015 #1

I'll put you in the "but" category. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #4

I'll put you in that category too. HappyMe Jan 2015 #6

Satire. Brutal all out satire. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #10

Yeah, that will stop terrorists. HappyMe Jan 2015 #11

Capitulation won't stop them, it rewards them. That which is rewarded is repeated. Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #65

When Christian and Jewish religious figures are satired, christx30 Jan 2015 #68

There are generally 2 types of satire. Satire targeting the power structure w/intent to challenge KittyWampus Jan 2015 #34

There are just too many "but" heads in the world. nt Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #58

Uh - no leftynyc Jan 2015 #5

Rather asinine of the OP to dump me in the "but" category then. HappyMe Jan 2015 #9

I don't seen your name in the OP leftynyc Jan 2015 #13

See post 4 n/t arcane1 Jan 2015 #15

Ah - I see now leftynyc Jan 2015 #17

Read your first post. Curmudgeoness Jan 2015 #57

I did that on purpose to show that one can use "but" without condoning murder. arcane1 Jan 2015 #62

Cute leftynyc Jan 2015 #75

It is horrible, but I can also understand why they were angry over those cartoons. arcane1 Jan 2015 #14

Can you understand why Republicans are angry over calling Bush a chimp? oberliner Jan 2015 #33

Of course. It's quite obvious, actually. arcane1 Jan 2015 #64

So if a cartoonist who made such a comparison was shot and killed by a Bush fanatic... oberliner Jan 2015 #70

When someone commits murder, their motive is often talked about and discussed. arcane1 Jan 2015 #71

Spare me leftynyc Jan 2015 #78

Why would you need to qualify it when the Muslim people themselves are not randys1 Jan 2015 #26

That's an excellent point leftynyc Jan 2015 #76

So when someone posts anti-semitic diatribes inciting violence and provoking anti-semitism KittyWampus Jan 2015 #35

Here? Or on their own dime? Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #50

That happens all the time leftynyc Jan 2015 #77

There is no excuse for the violence period. List left Jan 2015 #51

I agree with you, HappyMe, and I stand in defense of your right to express that measured response. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #7

"There's a lot of hate going" yes indeed there is. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #8

I have never hated all over the victims. HappyMe Jan 2015 #12

Umm, he wasn't talking to you tkmorris Jan 2015 #20

I haven't read every thread on this. HappyMe Jan 2015 #23

Your first post on this thread included a "but" Fumesucker Jan 2015 #61

Not talking to you. Read again. 840high Jan 2015 #60

This message was self-deleted by its author uppityperson Jan 2015 #28

Mass slaughter is never, ever, justified, it's kind of built into the word "slaughter". NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #2

How many innocent people were murdered yesterday? Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #3

How many of the people slaughtered yesterday made a vocation of penning provocative comics? KittyWampus Jan 2015 #37

al qaeda agrees with you. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #41

I blamed no victims and your disgusting assertion speaks to a limited capacity to go outside your KittyWampus Jan 2015 #42

You declared the victims guilty of provocation. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #47

Satirists aren't "guilty" of provocation… THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT SATIRE IS. KittyWampus Jan 2015 #53

sat·ire - noun cherokeeprogressive Jan 2015 #74

that sometimes depends on the slaughter hfojvt Jan 2015 #19

Slaughters that prevent future or further slaughters, I suppose, might be exceptions. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #25

not sure if I would blame the aeroplane hfojvt Jan 2015 #32

Fair enough. The humanity or inhumanity of participants in war exists regardless of the technology. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #36

Ok. R3druM Jan 2015 #24

It hardly matters, R3druM. Twelve lives were lost, wasted, over religious intolerance. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #27

It does matter... R3druM Jan 2015 #38

I didn't know them, I didn't know these people. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #44

Well R3druM Jan 2015 #48

What do you think? NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #54

"part of an attempted genocide" Quasimodem Jan 2015 #59

so basically hfojvt Jan 2015 #16

Is it really so hard to state a leftynyc Jan 2015 #18

it is for a two handed economist hfojvt Jan 2015 #29

Wrong. Hillary said it before Bush did, and Mussolini and Orwell and Lenin before that. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #30

There is no "us" to be for or against. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #43

Look Warren. Innocent people were killed in that attack. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #55

Innocent people? LostOne4Ever Jan 2015 #73

It ain't going to happen. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #79

Only the dogmatic are capable holding one idea at a time. LanternWaste Jan 2015 #21

Exactly. I don't like this "only one thought per topic" rule. arcane1 Jan 2015 #31

Translation: I'm more liberal than you. FSogol Jan 2015 #22

Thank you, FSogol, for calling out the truth. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #39

No the liberals here are all tripping over their tiny appendages trying to avoid Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #80

Translation: Everything is in simple in my black and white world (+ a lame insult). FSogol Jan 2015 #81

Here is a very provocative comic. It's challenging and uncomfortable. But it's penetrated KittyWampus Jan 2015 #40

Joe Sacco. That needs to be an Original Post, KittyWampus. Thank you. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #49

Wow, the point made by this cartoon hits home with me... Spazito Jan 2015 #56

A friggin' masterpiece. Should be its own thread and go viral. Jonathan Swift's KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #67

"if binary thinking got us into this mess, binary thinking can get us out of this mess!" MisterP Jan 2015 #45

! annabanana Jan 2015 #69

I don't think proviokes and warranted mean the same thing Gore1FL Jan 2015 #46

Qualifying it how? hrmjustin Jan 2015 #52

Nobody excuses this slaughter or sadoldgirl Jan 2015 #63

Was about to post something similar when I saw your thread Hutzpa Jan 2015 #66

Show me ONE post "defending the actions of these cowards" arcane1 Jan 2015 #72