On 24 Jan 2009 10:41:01 -0600, Dave wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:56:09 -0800, Stephen Trapani
said:

What set off my BS
meter was your apparent smug assumption, with no supporting evidence, that
the mass of people from this very different culture must necessarily share
your point of view. Might be true. Might not.

Well, unless you think they are monkeys or subhuman in some way, the
same things that hurt you, hurt them. If your father is kidnapped and
killed, if your sister is brutalized and oppressed, if anyone who
objects has to live in constant fear, you hate it and so do they.

Q.E.D.

And now you allege that the majority of Afghanis have had relatives
kidnapped and killed by the Taliban? What is your support for that
proposition?

I understand that watching Christians being fed to the lions was a very
popular spectator sport in Rome at one time, and that the sponsors of those
events were wildly popular.

The similar stadium executions in Afghanistan were popular also. Does
that mean that either of them a morally good way to treat people? No.
Your "tolerance" of other "cultures" is causing you to support brutality
against people and is immoral. You should change.

As I've said before, I'm not backing the Taliban. My interest is in
intellectual honesty and truth.

Too Funny!