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The Real Doctor

On 26/08/11 12:36, d wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:26:08 +0100
The Real wrote:
You misunderstand. The other victims are the people who are put in a
state of fear by the original crime. If a drug dealer in Possilpark

Oh please, get over yourself. Calling yourself a victim is a bogus way
of grabbing the emtionally charged moral high ground and legitimising your
whinging but it doesn't work anymore. People have seen through that particular
liberal trick.

Where did I call myself a victim?

You must surely have worked out that the point of terrorism - the
definition of terrorism - is to intimidate people beyond the immediate
circle of victims of a particular crime. When the IRA were blowing up
pubs, they did it not so much to kill the people in those pubs (they had
no idea who they were going to kill, and it didn't really matter) but to
threaten pub goers through the country.

Similarly the point of the London tube and bus bombings wasn't to kill
people on tubes and buses, but to paralyse the city by deterring people
from using tubes and buses.

So the initial crime stands, of course, and should be punished, but the
additional crime of terrorising the population also deserves punishment.
Don't you agree?

Don't think of it as "hate crimes". Think of it as terrorism.

Are you for real? You're coming across as a poor satire.

What else would you call a deliberate attempt to intimidate a subsection
of the population?

You may care to read a little about cognitive dissonance. It's what
happens when people try to hold two opposing ideas. Not generally a
problem until someone points out the conflict, then all sorts of things
break out: accusations of satire, liberalism, political correctness and
so on. All basically translate as "You've pointed out that I have
inconsistent views but I can't have inconsistent views so you must be
wrong and horrible and I hate you. Waaaaaaaah."

See the "Daily Mail" comments pages for many, many further examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Ian