Monday, April 4, 2011

I’ll stick with “savages” and “barbarians.”

"To those in the media who are suggesting, apparently in all seriousness, that Terry Jones caused the deaths of seven UN employees in Afghanistan by burning a copy of the Koran, I’ll just note that the only way that argument works is by means of a suppressed premise. The premise is that the killers had no moral agency–in other words, that they were, literally, animals."

Me, I’ll stick with “savages” and “barbarians.”

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