Logan Darklighter Wrote:Well you gave me a straight answer. I'll give you that. I wonder what the logic would look like completely turned around. I wonder if you'd say that building a monument to the Crusaders in Medina or Mecca was a good idea? I kinda doubt it.Unless you're claiming that New York City is a holy city, this is a bad analogy.
(Although there are some people who worship money, and NYC is home to the New York Stock Exchange... No, that's a digression from the point of the thread.)
A more accurate analogy would be "I wonder if you'd say that building a church in Dhahran was a good idea?".
Quote:But since you don't feel the need to answer any argument seriously, I won't hold you to it.It looks to me as if he gave you a serious answer. It obviously wasn't one that you like, but it was serious.
Quote:Or it may be we won't know in our lifetimes whether western progress or medieval backwardness will win out.In all seriousness, I'm hoping for a third option. (No, I don't know what that option might be. If I did, I'd be working toward implementing it.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012