7/28 I think someone just used the liberal version of "Why do you hate
America" on me. I was telling a guy I know that I thought Michael
Moore's "would you sacrifice your children?" question is stupid
because Moore can take the correct response of "no, because I don't
speak for my children- they make their own decisions" and say,
"see! see! you said no, you're a hypocrite!" To which this guy
responded with, "So it's okay to lie to go to war?"
\_ Yeah, sounds like it to me. Still not quite as snappy, but close.
\_ Why do you support torture?
\_ Moore is an idiot. In any case, he could do his job a lot easier
by stopping his calling Bush a liar, and saying he's incompetent
instead. As well, Moore should be asking, "If you were President,
would you send America's children to Iraq based on what you knew?"
instead of asking the ridiculous version of the question ("Would
you send your own kid ...").
\_ I think a better response is: so if the UN sanctioned the war
you would then automatically 'sacrifice' your children? As if
it should make a difference.
\_ You're all missing the fucking point. The people Moore approaches
are the ones making the decisions to authorize the use of the
troops, cutting their benefits and danger pay, etc. He has two
\_ Bill O'Reilly makes decisions to authorize use of troops?
audiences with that stunt, those watching through the camera,
and the legislators themselves. The point is not that their
children should be compelled to serve. It's that 1) they might
weigh their decisions differently if they could imagine that
it was their own child, and 2) the poor join up to the military
for the opportunities they see in it while the well off don't.
Moore wants the soldiers lives to be weighed to their worth.
\_ Nice try. Moore just wants to make people look like
hypocrites when they clearly aren't.
\_ Did you even watch the damn film. If you want to over-
simplify it without considering what I just said, I weep
for you.
\_ Someone mentioned a film? |
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