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Merrick

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Re: Stop Thatcher having a state funeral

Aug 20, 2009, 10:32

pooley wrote:

I find the Idi amin Pinochet thing a bit ridiculous.

Indeed. It's a common thing for people to extend a principle to a more extreme example in order to show why the principle is wrong. I'm presuming you're intelligent enough to be able to do such imaginative thinking. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Personally, I find picking out the second paragraph and dismissing it as 'ridiculous' is lazy. Laziness because it goes to no effort to be imaginative, to explain *why* you think that at all, and so serve no purpose other than to thumb your nose and go 'gah!'.

Argue the point, about the point and none of this nonsense.

OK, I'll do that. Oh no, hang on a minute, I'd already written that before the bit you take issue with.

Merrick wrote:

Thatcher may go but Thatcherism survives.

Venerating her and what she stood for would make the world a worse place. whereas decrying her and having people be jubilant at her demise and dropping her cadaver down a disused mine shaft would lead to people understanding that there is a widespread hatred of her for what she did and what she stood for.

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