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TPaine7

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10. No, not if they were working toward that end.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 05:38 PM
Jul 2012

America can say: "Less nuclear arms are better, and we would like to work with the Soviets to lower our arsenals. We would also like others to join us in decreasing the number of nuclear arms." That is not hypocritical.

America cannot say: "India and France have no right to nuclear arsenals" while maintaining their own arsenal--at least not without being hypocritical.

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Bloomie can say: "Less guns are better, and I am decreasing my armed detail and getting rid of some of my private guns, and I would like other citizens to join me in getting rid of guns." That is not hypocritical.

Bloomie cannot say: "I am an important and special person with my own army and with special rights. There is no equality under the law, despite what the Constitution says, so as a special person, I can have and/or carry my personal weapons while forbidding others to do the same. Jane Smith, who has been put in the hospital several times by her lunatic ex and is under death threats is not a special person; yes she's threatened just as surely as I am, but I'm better than her. So my lackeys at the police department, who issued my special papers, can laugh in her face, bully her, give her the runaround and deny her the same treatment I got." That would be hypocrisy.

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