> > like the point of the sick-to-one's-stomach thing (which was really only that if cases connected with one POV disgust you, so do cases connected with your own POV; that doesn't mean they form the basis for any kind of argument)
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> Oh, so that's what that was about. Ok. Well, in that case, the thing to be careful about is not to assume that issues are black and white and what does not fall on one side of the fence must therefore fall on the other. I also think the broadcasting of McVeigh's execution was a sickening decision.

Agreed. I now, in retrospect, fully admit that it was a Bad Idea to try to use that example.

To forcibly jerk out of context back into the whole emotional maturity thing: I'm a high school student, and not a very precocious one. (Certainly not as much as some of the other people on this forum.) Please have patience with me.

Ar"not that I don't appreciate the patience I've already received"thur