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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Because for anything to exist - so must its opposite. Just as there can be no such thing as Up without a thing known as Down, there can be no 'good' without 'evil.' Murderers must exist so that people who don't murder can also exist.
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And you lose me here. Murderers exist. People who don't murder exist. I do not believe one gives rise to the other, nor do I believe they are cosmically linked by any sort of yin-yang requirement of the world. They are independent, rising from simple statistics.
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Both are "bad" in my value system. Both are necessary for their opposites to even exist. Since I am pleased to be a person who (I hope) would not seek to torture or humiliate prisoners under my watch, in some sense I am thankful for those that do. They fill a necessary niche in the world. And I am free to be their opposite.
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Which is based on a belief in something for which I have no evidence and therefore cannot agree with.
As with Alex, I have no sympathy for Saddam in the situation, nor do I consider the act particularly heinous on a relative scale. And, were Matt and Trey to have thought of it and put it in an episode of South Park as a theoretical situation, I would have laughed at it. But faced with the reality of an individual who chooses to act like that, I don't find it amusing, I find it cowardly and pathetic.
If one of those soldiers happened to be sitting next to me in a bar and told me how he'd sat and laughed at Saddam while showing him the movie just to rub it in Saddam's face, I would have thought, "Wow, this guy is a fvking prick, I want nothing to do with him."