1: Terrorists maim and / or torture people, using a range of bot physical and /or psychological tactics in order to obtain information from them, and inspire fear and / or terror into them and their remaining civilian populations.
Ergo maiming and / or torturing people, using physical and / or psychological, tactics to obtain information and inspire fear and / or terror is an act of terror.
Q.E.D. CIA operatives are using terrorist methods to achieve their goals of fighting terrorism, regardless of moral equivalency.
Explain how terrorism can be fought with terrorism, without resorting to arguments based on the precept, or perceptions of, moral equivalency.
2: You are statistically more likely to be struck by, and severely injured and / or killed, by lightning than by an act of terrorism.
Explain what precautions and measures you are insisting your government take to protect you from lightning strikes, what liberties you are willing to forgo to ensure you are not struck by lightning, and what amount of government funding should be set aside to protect people from lightning.
3: Hypothetically, there is legislation in place allowing the torture of any individual that may potentially have knowledge of, or know of someone with knowledge of, an imminent terrorist attack, and you support such legislation.
Due to an administrative error one letter is misspelled in the names on the suspect list for a domestic terror group thought to be planning an attack. Due to computerised ID matching, a member of your family is selected to be the most likely person on that suspect list.
They are raided in the middle of the night, taken, and are now likely to be tortured for a number of hours before the oversight comes to light when a desk clerk manually checks the information some time next day or the day after.
This is most likely 12-36 hours away, during which time said family member is having a number of physical and / or psychological tactics used against them, regardless of their protstation that they are both a US citizen and have universal human rights regardless of those laid out in the Constitution.
In light of this, argue how you will continue your support for legislation that allows detention without right to habeus corpus and supports torture.
Shit, I should write essay questions for college students!
Getting drunk in a nightclub in a CHOICE that you can make. Going to work and dying because someone decided to run a fuckin plane into your building is a tad different story.
You're confusing the aggressor for the victim in this euphemism.
Getting drunk and accidentally killing someone is the same choice as getting into a plane and flying it into a building.
Going to a pub and getting glassed in a fight is the same outcome as going to work and having a plane ride into your building.
You're letting emotion and preconceived points of view get in the way of understanding other people's lines of reason.
