There are a couple of points I think may be worth keeping in the backs of our heads as issues become more directly important to our lives and liberty. Especially because one of the enemy’s chief tactics is the manipulation of language to cause you to miss the target. Quoting a friend who specializes in this, (but I don’t know if I can attribute), “if a sniper has a target a mile away, they only have to move the end of your barrel a millimetre to get you to miss the target by a wide margin.”
I think a great deal of propaganda we get both from the other side and a lot of what we see purporting to be on our side is of this exact nature. After all, if the guy next to you on your perch is on the other side in reality, its a lot easier for him to move your sight.
Let’s begin with being for or against things at entirely the wrong level of abstraction:
WAR
Being for or against war, is a fairly deceptive false dichotomy. Obviously everyone would prefer not to have a war. But the real issue is when is the cost of not having a war is higher than having one, and how do you determine cost? When a foreign entity wishes to take over your entire culture, property and legal system ...
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