Subject: Re: Shock'N'Awe
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:43:51 +0000


John Foster wrote:

> >bombing, 77 persons have died in Baghdad.
>
>Does it not bother you, John, that all your judgments
>concerning
>"unevenness," concerning civilian deaths, concerning guilt
>and innocence in
>this whole matter, rest on a completely skewed reading of
>Heidegger?
>
>No, I am watching CBC NewsWorld and those are the statistics
>cited. America is strictly liable for those 77 deaths and I
>feel no guilt on my part.

I wasn't asking whether you feel guilt on your part. I was asking whether it 
bothers you that your whole worldview, which skews your judgment into 
bizarre statements like the US was not instrumental in winning WWII, or that 
a war is unjustified if there are ANY civilian deaths AT ALL (which rules 
out WWII, with or without Hiroshima and Dresden, so I assume you think that 
it wasn't a just cause) - whether it bothers you that this determining 
worldview rests on the mistaken assumption that it has some kind of 
ontological justification, beyond mere ontic justification? Because if you 
have is ontic justification, then you can no longer claim the enlightened 
position that you think you have.

Anthony Crifasi


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