Comment Re:HOWTO (Score 1) 1081
Do you apply the same muddle-headed moral relativism to all topics?
Name calling in the first sentence. Wonderful.
Let's say you've got $10,000 in your hands:
1) It was the life savings of a little old lady, and you beat her over the head, killing her, and took it.
or
2) Someone very wealthy liked you, and gave it to you.
Doesn't really matter the words we use to describe what led to you having $10,000, right? Because all that matters is you now have $10,000. It's the same outcome! Whew, glad that all of those pesky value judgements are safely out of the equation from now on. The end justifies the means! How and why no longer matter, just the results! Thank you for making everything so simple, now.
Wow, way to misrepresent me. Do you think I think the words don't matter in describing those two situations you gave, of course not! It is interesting that you had to make that stuff up to answer me, it is totally tangential, and has nothing to do with what I said. You didn't say why your example was equivalent to what I said, did you? That's rather dishonest.
I did say that it didn't matter whether neilo called execution 'murder', this is because anyone who reads it knows it is an execution. It doesn't matter whether he called it 'killing' or 'murdering' in this case, because the information conveyed was the same. Thus you saying that:
What you're showing, here, is that you don't actually understand what the word "murder" means.
is totally irrelevant, using the word 'murder' does not change the information someone reading that comment gets from it, so who cares that he used it, maybe you could have come up with an actual counter argument instead.